Marcos Regime Research

Marcos Regime Research

The Marcos Regime Research (MRR) program is the response of the UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC) to the unabated tide of historical revisionism in favor of the Marcos regime—a re-prioritization of research on the rule of Ferdinand Marcos and the continuing influence of the Marcos family and their cronies in the Philippines. Currently, the program mainly consists of funded and in-house historical research projects conducted by the Center's Marcos Regime Research group. Among the outputs of this program are academic journal articles, conference presentations, and short articles released via online media outlets.

Program Publications

2016

• Ariate, Joel Jr., F. and Miguel Paolo P. Reyes. 2016. “ “File No. 60: Marcos’ Invented Heroism.” Vera Files, July 2. http://verafiles.org/articles/file-no-60-marcos-invented-heroism. Syndicated in Philstar.com and ABS-CBN News.

• Ariate, Joel Jr., F. and Miguel Paolo P. Reyes. 2016. “File No. 60: A Family Affair.” Vera Files, July 3. http://verafiles.org/articles/file-no-60-family-affair. Syndicated in Philstar.com and ABS-CBN News.

• Ariate, Joel Jr., F. and Miguel Paolo P. Reyes. 2016. “File No. 60: Debunking the Marcos War Myth.” Vera Files, July 4. http://verafiles.org/articles/file-no-60-debunking-marcos-war-myth. Syndicated in Philstar.com and ABS-CBN News.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. and Joel F. Ariate Jr. 2016. “Ruling in Nalundasan Case May Yet Bar Marcos Burial at LNB.” Vera Files, November 19. https://verafiles.org/articles/ruling-1935-nalundasan-case-may-yet-bar-marcos-burial-lnb. Syndicated in ABS-CBN News.

2017

• Ariate, Joel Jr., F. 2017. “Scammers Sell Marcos 'Legacy' to Poor Pinoys.” Vera Files, September 25. https://verafiles.org/articles/scammers-sell-marcos-legacy-poor-pinoys. Syndicated in Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philstar.com, ABS-CBN News, Interaksyon, and Malaya.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. and Ricardo T. Jose. 2012-2013 [published in 2017]. “Why Marcos Pa Rin!” Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 27(1-2)-28(1-2): 1-18. https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/6233/5522. [Introduction to a special issue of Kasarinlan titled "Marcos Pa Rin! Ang Mga Pamana at Sumpa ng Rehimeng Marcos," available at https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/issue/view/602.]

2018

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. 2018. “Producing Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Scholarly Author.” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 66(2): 173-218. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/697640.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. 2018. "U.P. and the Marcoses." Rappler, September 11. https://www.rappler.com/views/imho/211687-university-of-the-philippines-marcos-family.

2019

• Third World Studies Center. 2019. “All Hail and Glory to the Marcoses!” Vera Files, May 27. https://www.verafiles.org/articles/all-hail-and-glory-marcoses. Syndicated in ABS-CBN News [as “Imee’s Win to Boost Efforts to Restore Marcos Name in History] and Malaya.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. 2019. "The Duterte-Marcos Connection." Vera Files, September 29. https://verafiles.org/articles/duterte-marcos-connection. Syndicated in ABS-CBN News and Philstar.com [as "The Marcos Factor in Duterte's Family History," published February 25, 2020].

2020

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. and Joel F. Ariate Jr. 2020. “Marcos and the First Quarter Storm Part 1: Paranoia and Pretense.” Vera Files, March 10. https://verafiles.org/articles/marcos-and-first-quarter-storm-part-i-paranoia-and-pretense. Syndicated in Malaya.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. and Joel F. Ariate Jr. 2020. “Marcos and the First Quarter Storm Part 2: Of Pillboxes and Firearms.” Vera Files, March 11. https://verafiles.org/articles/marcos-and-first-quarter-storm-part-ii-pillboxes-and-firearm.

• Ariate, Joel F. Jr. and Miguel Paolo P. Reyes. 2020. "Marcos Propaganda in a Time of Plague.” Vera Files, April 22. https://verafiles.org/articles/marcos-propaganda-time-plague. Syndicated Northern Dispatch [in English and Ilocano] and Malaya.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. and Joel F. Ariate Jr. 2020. “Senator Imee Marcos Lies about RITM in Pushing for SB1407.” Vera Files, April 25. https://verafiles.org/articles/senator-imee-marcos-lies-about-ritm-pushing-sb14.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P., Joel F. Ariate Jr., and Larah Vinda B. Del Mundo. 2020. "Success of Masagana 99 All in Imee's Head - UP Researchers." Vera Files, May 24. https://verafiles.org/articles/success-masagana-99-all-imees-head-researchers. Syndicated in Philstar.com and Northern Dispatch.

• Ariate, Joel F. Jr. 2020. "Of Forbidden Stories and Foreign Scrutiny: We Forum and the 1980 New York Times Story, 'The House of Marcos.'" Vera Files, June 23. https://verafiles.org/articles/forbidden-stories-and-foreign-scrutiny-we-forum-and-1980-new.

• Ariate, Joel F. Jr. 2020. "'Who is your Hero' Survey that Angered Imelda Marcos." Vera Files, August 30. https://verafiles.org/articles/who-your-hero-survey-angered-imelda-marcos.

• Ariate, Joel F. Jr. and Miguel Paolo P. Reyes. 2020. "The Marcoses' Glory Days." Vera Files, September 22. https://verafiles.org/articles/marcoses-glory-days.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P. 2020. "The Marcoses: A History of Rejecting Election Defeats." Vera Files, November 27. https://verafiles.org/articles/marcoses-history-rejecting-election-defeats. Syndicated in ABS-CBN News and Philstar.com.

• Ariate, Joel F. Jr. and Miguel Paolo P. Reyes. 2020. "Who Should Filipino Workers Thank for the 13th Month Pay." Vera Files, December 24. https://verafiles.org/articles/who-should-filipino-workers-thank-the13th-month-pay.

• Masangkay, Christian Victor A. and Larah Vinda B. Del Mundo. 2016 [published 2020]. "Where to Bury Marcos? Dead Body Politics in the Marcos Playbook." Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies. https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/7264/6327.

2021

• Del Mundo, Larah Vinda B. 2021. "Like Duterte, Her Father was a Misogynist too, Imee Reminds us." Vera Files, January 23. https://verafiles.org/articles/duterte-her-father-was-misogynist-too-imee-reminds-us.

• Reyes, Miguel Paolo P., Joel F. Ariate Jr., and Larah Vinda B. Del Mundo. 2021. "The Military's Obsession with UP: Some Historical Notes." Vera Files, January 28. https://verafiles.org/articles/militarys-obsession-some-historical-notes. Syndicated in ABS-CBN News and Philstar.com.

• Ariate, Joel F. 2020. "Duterte Does a Marcos 'Show me the Money' Tactic." Vera Files, February 19. https://verafiles.org/articles/duterte-does-amarcos-show-me-money-tactic.

Articles Discussing the Program and/or Its Work

• Limpin, Dianna Therese N. 2019-2020. "Pushing Back Against the Lies: Efforts to Fact-check the Marcoses on Social Media." Social Science Information Vol. 47-48: 9-13. https://pssc.org.ph/wp-content/pssc-ssi/2019-2020/PSSC-SSI%20Vol%2047-48%20(2019-20).pdf.

• Casilao, Joahna Lei. 2020. "Imee Marcos' Claims Misleading, Downplays RITM Achievements - Report." GMA News Online, April 25. https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/735590/marcos-claims-misleading-downplays-ritm-achievements-report/story/.

• Berdos, Enrico. 2020. "Propaganda Web: Pro-Marcos Literature, Sites, and Online Disinformation Linked." Vera Files, December 11. https://verafiles.org/articles/propaganda-web-pro-marcos-literature-sites-and-online-disinf. Syndicated in ABS-CBN News.

• Pangue, Jene-Anne. 2020. "Disinformation Researchers Unpack the Game of Lies and its Impact on Democracy." Rappler, December 10. https://www.rappler.com/moveph/disinformation-researchers-unpack-lies-social-media-impact-democracy.

• Gregorio, Xave. 2020. "Researchers Find Links Between Pro-Marcos Books, Sites, Online Disinformation. Philstar.com, December 12. https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/12/12/2063307/researchers-find-links-between-pro-marcos-books-sites-online-disinformation.

• D&D. 2021. "One Fiction Ends but False Narratives Remain." #FightDisinfo, February 19. https://fightdisinfo.substack.com/p/one-fiction-ends-but-false-narratives.

• Gomez, Buddy [Tomas III]. 2021. "Marcos Delusion Anchored on Deception and Disinformation." ABS-CBN News, February 27. https://news.abs-cbn.com/blogs/opinions/02/27/21/marcos-delusion-anchored-on-deception-and-disinformation.