Philippines at Dusk: New Society Dystopia

Here's some bios of a future TL I'm planning.

Ferdinand E. Marcos (1917-1995)
President of the Philippines, 1966-1973
Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1973-1991

Gen. Fidel V. Ramos (1927-)

Director, Philippine Constabulary, 1971-1983
Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines, 1983-1991
Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1994-2001

Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. (1933-1973)

Governor of Taglac, 1963-67
Senator from Taglac, 1967-1973

Robert "Bobby" Ong (1927-)

Director, National Bureau of Investigation, 1970-1993

Cesar Virata: Chief of Staff to the President, 1967-73
Chief of Staff, PMO, 1973-77
Minister of Finance: 1977-91
Prime Minister of the Philippines: 1991-94

Diosdado Macapagal: President of the Philippines, 1961-65

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: Prime Minister of the Philippines, 2001-present

Lee Kuan Yew: Prime Minister of Singapore, 1963-1995

Nguyen Van Thieu: President of South Vietnam, 1967-1983

Richard Nixon: U.S. President, 1958-69 (R-CA)

Robert "Bobby" Kennedy: (D-NY)
U.S. Senator from New York, 1961-69, 1983-2007
U.S. President, 1969-81

George H.W. Bush (R-TX)

Senator from Texas, 1965-1984
U.S. President, 1985-1993

Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979-94

Indira Gandhi: Indian Prime Minister, 1966-1985

Rajiv Gandhi: Indian Prime Minister, 1985-2003
 
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Would anyone be interested in this? Francisco, besides Cory's in-laws, can you name other Ferdie cronies or prominent figures which the death squads took care of?
 
You forgot the "Rolex 12", RogueBeaver:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_12

Ver in particular is interesting - no-one can say for sure if he was a figurehead for all the human rights abuses, or if he actually knew about them.

As for enemies of Marcos, you also have Geny Lopez, who headed ABS-CBN immediately before OTL Martial Law, and escaped his jail cell along with Sergio Osmena III.
 
Didn't Ver, as AFP CoS, have a hand in ordering Ninoy's assassination? Though he died before extradition in 1998. The assassination wouldn't have happened without a yellow or green light from the Emperor of Extrajudiciality.
 
What happened to his ex-Veep, Fernando Lopez? Marcos running with a Lopez? I thought that was one of his Sicilian-style blood feuds.
 
What happened to his ex-Veep, Fernando Lopez? Marcos running with a Lopez? I thought that was one of his Sicilian-style blood feuds.

Well, the feud started just before Martial Law - apparently Fernando was too independent for Ferdie's liking (Ferdie preferring a yes-man). Before that, though, he was probably picked as a running mate as a sop to the traditional Nat rank-and-file (remember, Marcos had only defected just before his nomination, and was a bit of an outsider).
 
How is it dystopic?

This reads like the presidential list from 1983-2009 except with some changes/ (
 
Dystopic because if you thought OTL NS was bad, this will be worse. A police state managed by Ferdie, Ramos and Bobby Ong. Ong is like Nhu and Hoover combined ITTL...
 
What I'll do is take my earlier Greatest Presidents idea, and mold it with this TL one with some major alterations. The POD will be *hidden* but the TL will start in 1965...
 
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