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“Comeback” Queen Imelda Marcos: ‘The Kingmaker’ Exposes Former Philippines First Lady’s Designs On Dynasty

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Matthew Carey The Philippines, and its long tug of war between democracy and autocracy, is the subject of two timely documentaries.In A Thousand Cuts, set for U.S.

release later this summer, director Ramona Diaz examines the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte, who has unleashed a campaign of violence and murder on drug suspects and tightened the noose around press freedoms.

Just today, crusading journalist Maria Ressa—the hero of A Thousand Cuts—was convicted of “cyber libel” and sentenced to up to six years in prison.The Kingmaker, meanwhile, takes as its subject the colorful former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, and her quest to establish a political dynasty.

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