Marcos points to disinfo, distrust as threats to democracy in Ninoy Aquino Day message

Ninoy Aquino, a staunch critic of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, fell to an assassin’s bullet, shortly after he arrived at the Manila International Airport (now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport)/Official Gazette MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the late dictator whose martial-law government jailed Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. for nearly eight years, named …