Who is Imelda Marcos
Imelda Romualdez Marcos (locally [ɪˈmelda ˈmaɾkɔs]; born Imelda Remedios Visitacion Trinidad Romualdez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician who served as the First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power during the dictatorship of her husband, former president Ferdinand Marcos. She is the mother of current president Bongbong Marcos.During her husband's 21-year rule, she ordered the construction of many grandiose architectural projects, using public funds and "in impossibly short order" – a propaganda practice, which eventually came to be known as her "edifice complex". She and her husband Ferdinand stole billions of pesos from the Filipino people, amassing a personal fortune estimated to have been worth US$5 billion to US$10 billion by the ...Read Full Biography of Imelda Marcos
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- I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
- People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
- I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
- Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
- Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Benign0: "both acts deserve condemnation for being patently offensive. but there is a problem when one condemns the one who did a food review of a consecrated host, but tolerates the nurse who wished death on imelda, simply because she is a marcos."Woopermyg: just like imelda and marcos sr. frfr
Itsprda: omg didnt expect she was going to mention imelda marcos out of nowhere
Jamescappio: some of us remember imelda marcos, you know.
Cruzlucerobot: “this replica of a nineteenth-century hispanic house was actually built in 1979." ah, isabel thinks, another of imelda marcos’s “cultural projects,” meaning the epitome of kitsch.
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