Manila, Philippines – In a small huddle with martial law victims and their surviving families in Manila’s Monument of Heroes memorial park, Joey Faustino wonders what has happened to the Philippines.
“Should I feel betrayed that the lies have prevailed? Or forgotten and neglected by our countrymen who believed these lies?” he asks, a week after voters elected Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the country’s former dictator, as its next president.
