A pro-Marcos YouTube channel posted a video falsely claiming that the Marcos family was kidnapped by the United States military during the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.
CLAIM: The Marcos family was kidnapped by the US military during 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.
RATING: FALSE
A pro-Marcos YouTube channel made the false claim that the Marcos family was kidnapped by the United States military during the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.
YouTuber Caloy Roy of “Bagong Lipunan” attempted to fact-check Rappler CEO Maria Ressa during her Nobel Prize lecture in 2021.
In the video, Caloy claims the Marcos family was forcibly removed from the Philippines by the US military by showing a video interview of Bongbong Marcos.
The son of the late dictator and kleptocrat said the US military offered to take them to Ilocos but didn’t bring them there. Based on this, Roy goes on to conclude that the Marcos family were kidnapped.
However, testimony from the then defense minister of Ferdinand Marcos, Sr., Juan Ponce Enrile stated that Marcos willingly left the country.
According to Enrile, Marcos initially wanted to establish a “provisional government” where he would remain President until 1987, stating that “[he] would like to leave politics in a clean and orderly manner.”
Enrile refused because he said that he had committed support to Corazon “Cory” Aquino – the wife of the slain senator Benigno Aquino Jr.
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