{"id":56323,"date":"2023-06-30T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/30\/a-year-of-marcos-jr-how-a-dictators-son-has-changed-the-philippines"},"modified":"2023-06-30T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:00:23","slug":"a-year-of-marcos-jr-how-a-dictators-son-has-changed-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56323","title":{"rendered":"A year of Marcos Jr: how a dictator\u2019s son has changed the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos has stood up to China, and he remains popular, despite running the country \u2018under cruise control\u2019, according to one expert<\/p>\n<p>One year ago on Friday, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son and namesake of the former dictator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/ferdinand-marcos-jnr-bongbong-philippines-president-swearing-in\">became the president of the Philippines<\/a>, returning one of the country\u2019s most polarising families to office.<\/p>\n<p>He had campaigned on a broad pledge of bringing unity, as well as creating jobs, building infrastructure and cutting the cost of food. He won a landslide victory, boosted by a flood of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/07\/philippines-election-bongbong-poised-to-become-president-as-marcos-history-is-rewritten\">online disinformation<\/a> that created nostalgia for his father\u2019s rule, portraying it as an era of great economic prosperity and stability.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/30\/a-year-of-marcos-jr-how-a-dictators-son-has-changed-the-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos has stood up to China, and he remains popular, despite running the country \u2018under cruise control\u2019, according to one expertOne year ago on Friday, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son and namesake of the former dictator, became the president of the Philippin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2377,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-imelda-marcos","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56324,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56323\/revisions\/56324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}