How could this Aspiring Presidential Candidate Possess the Yamashita Treasure?
The tyrant and the Japanese war loot
“I cannot give what I do not have,” this was Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. repetitive statement whenever he was being grilled about the legendary Yamashita Gold. Bongbong Marcos is the only son of the infamous Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos. His mother is the world-renowned first lady with over 3,000 designer-shoes collection. Currently, Marcos junior is running for president in the Philippines this coming May 2022 election.
Bongbong wants to follow in his father’s footsteps. This time, with the new generation of voters armed with the new age of social media campaigning, Bongbong is striving hard to revise his father’s dictatorship; he also believes that he will finally regain his family’s lost glory.
Unfortunately, many Filipinos never forget the ill-gotten wealth the Marcos family stole from the public fund. For two decades, they controlled the nation. Although their followers, the Marcos’ loyalists believed otherwise.
Yet, when it comes to the narrative of the Yamashita Treasure, both loyalists and detractors agree that the Marcos family possessed it, hid it, and kept it all these years. The loyalists argue that Bongbong is the solution to the ballooning debt of the Philippines…
