NEW BOOK. Ilocano book author Ric Agnes (right) pays a courtesy visit to Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander "Sandro" Araneta Marcos III on Friday (Feb. 24, 2023). Agnes is set to release a new book on Rep. Marcos' grandfather, former President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.(Photo by Leilanie Adriano) LAOAG CITY - Hawaii-based Ilocano author Ric Agnes is launching a book on former President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. at the Tabacalera Food Park here on Feb. 25. In an interview on Friday, Agnes said he was inspired to write the book titled, "Dagiti Maudi nga Aldaw (The last days) of Ferdinand E. Marcos," with the consent of retired Colonel Arturo Aruiza, the former president's aide-de-camp and confidant for 21 years until the former president's death in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989. "Along with Col. Aruiza's permission for me to cull from his memoirs, I have also been a witness to certain events that have greatly inspired me to put the former president's
Is this alternate history? No. It is melodrama. It's the Marcoses using cinema to re-create themselves as family wronged by history. The problem with that is how the audience will take this, given that we have been fed with that soap-opera theme for decades of rich families being wronged.