If you have to flee your country, Hawaii isn’t a bad place to live. That’s where Ferdinand Marcos, an autocrat who ruled the Philippines by decree and instituted martial law, ended up after two decades of rule. He's accused of getting rich off the backs of his people, even as the economy nosedived. The US urged him to resign and leave the country in 1986 after a disputed presidential election that both Marcos and his opponent claimed to win – and flew him to Honolulu, where he soon became politically irrelevant in the Philippines. He passed away in 1989.
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Former President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos
