Three decades after a “people power” revolt ousted his dictator father, Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was wooing voters on the campaign trail this week in his bid to become the Philippines’ next vice president. Thirty years ago Thursday, Ferdinand Sr. and Imelda Marcos and their family fled the country after four days of massive street protests that saw rosary-clutching nuns and ordinary citizens kneeling before tanks and protesters sticking yellow flowers into the muzzles of assault rifles of pro-government troops. The younger Marcos made no mention of that uprising when he addressed listeners Monday in a poor village near Manila where supporters of his father live. One of those leaders he alluded to without naming him was Aquino, a scion of a political clan whose longstanding rivalry with the Marcoses has shaped the country’s political scene for decades. ...
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