The people power revolt in the Philippines 36 years ago is a source of mixed emotions for a man who was arrested and tortured for being an activist. Her battle has gone back and forth. The euphoria over the triumph of democracy in Asia has faded over the years and now looks upended with the son of a dictator running for president. The anniversary of the army-backed uprising that ousted Marcos was marked by his rise as a beacon of change in authoritarian regimes around the world. She expressed fears he will take after his father and seek to cover up his crimes and failures. The Commission on Elections was asked to disqualify Marcos Jr. from the presidential race because of his past tax conviction. Her petition was dismissed by the commission. An additional one is pending but will likely be rejected as well. This is history repeating itself, according to Rosales. Marcos Jr., who has served as a governor, congressman and senator, leads popularity surveys in the presidential race by a large margin despite his family's history. He has called the allegations against his father a lie and his campaign focuses on a call for unity. The four-day revolt that forced the elder Marcos from power in 1986 began when Juan Ponce Enrile and his forces withdrew their support from him after their coup plot against the ailing leader was uncovered. They barricaded themselves in two military camps along the main EDSA highway in the capital, where a Roman Catholic leader summoned Filipinos to bring food and support the mutinous troops. The crowd was a human shield for the defectors. The nuns, priests and civilians kneeled in front of the tanks to stop them from crushing the uprising. The elder Marcos died in Hawaii in 1989 without admitting any wrongdoing, despite accusations that he, his family and cronies amassed an estimated $5 billion to $10 billion while he was in power. A Hawaii court found him liable for human rights violations and awarded $2 billion from his estate to compensate more than 9,000 Filipinos who had filed a lawsuit against him for torture, extrajudicial killings, incarceration and disappearances. Marcos Jr. told Korina that he decided to run for Congress to protect his family from being hounded politically. There is a wall in the suburban Manila home of the former head of the Commission on Human Rights filled with pictures of activism, including as a member of the House of Representatives for nine years. There is only one reminder of the worst moments, a blurry military mugshot showing her with a tense smile and a scribbled date. Four years after Marcos placed the Philippines under martial law, she and five other anti-Marcos activists were arrested by military agents at a restaurant. I was smiling before the torture, according to Rosales. She said her body convulsed when she was blindfolded and wires were clipped on her fingers and toes for two days in a military hideout. She couldn't scream because her mouth was gagged. She said she was subjected to Russian roulette, in which a captor pointed a revolver to her head and pulled the trigger to force her to inform on other activists. The Philippines has been mired in poverty, corruption, inequality, long-running communist and Muslim insurgencies and political divisions for nearly four decades after democracy was restored. Pre-pandemic economic growth mostly benefited the wealthiest families and failed to lift millions from desperation. Unemployment and hunger went to record levels at the height of the epidemic. Richard Heydarian, a Manila-based academic and analyst, said that ordinary Filipinos look at these realities and question whether this is really what they want. Marcos Jr. has promised increased prosperity and peace, and many Filipinos remember peace and quiet under martial law in the 1970s. His strong following did not emerge overnight. He was a vice presidential candidate in 2016 and lost to Leni Robredo by only 263,000 votes. Three months before the vote, Robredo is far behind Marcos Jr., the leading liberal opposition candidate in the presidential race. Enrile, now 98, has endorsed Marcos Jr.'s candidacy. Marcos Jr. has adopted a key leader of the coup plot against the elder Marcos. Honasan said that the choice of the people should be respected, even though he hasn't decided who to support for president. Honasan said in an interview that if the Filipino people decide to have a collective national amnesia and say, "let's give another Marcos a chance", who are we to question that? 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