Juan Ponce Enrile, the Philippine defense chief during a martial-law era notorious for human rights atrocities, democratic setbacks and plunder who later broke off from then dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a schism that eventually led to the latter’s overthrow in a 1986 “people power” uprising, died on Thursday. He was 101.
Katrina Ponce Enrile said her father died at home surrounded by family as he had wished, but did not immediately provide other details. She said her father had been confined in a medical intensive care unit for pneumonia treatment.
