Ferdinand Marcos was famous for ruling the Philippine island with an iron fist for nearly two decades. He was also known for implementing a brutal martial law that allowed the military to exercise its extraordinary power to maintain order, with his superior position in the Senate, martial law was his excuse for the uncontrolled growth of the communist party's level called New People's Army or NPA. . He was the first president in Philippine presidential history to be re-elected twice in his term. Ferdinand was born on September 11, 1917 in a small village in Ilocos Norte, located in the northern part of Luzon, called Sarat. His parents Josefa Edralin and Mariano Marcos were both school teachers. Many rumors had spread that Ferdinand's biological father was Ferdinand Chua, a wealthy Chinese-Filipino individual in the position of municipal judge in a local town, but Ferdinand claims he was the godfather. In the years after Ferdinand, as he went to school and pursued his dream of becoming a lawyer, Chua became responsible for his education finances and turned his fortunes around his murder conviction. He was accepted into the University of the Philippines, one of the best and the best among all universities and did well in school. Many of his classmates were amazed by his ability to retain complicated texts and recite them back and forth. His intelligence was the key to becoming president. While in college, he was accused of killing Julio Nalundasan in his private residence with a .22 caliber as he celebrated victoriously winning the congressional election over his political rival, Mariano Marcos. Three years later, in his final year before becoming a full juror. lawyer, Ferdinand was arrested for Nalungusan ...... middle of paper ...... Force jet to bring the whole family. The Marcoses took 28 million pesos (about $649) and over 300 valuables. The portion they took with them was believed to be only a fraction of his illegally acquired wealth. Additionally, they have a frozen bank account in Switzerland worth more than $475 million, and the Philippine government has auctioned off jewelry collections worth more than $13 million from his wife. Later, Ferdinand died of lupus erythematosus, a rapid deterioration of the kidneys, in Hawaii in 1989. When Imelda returned from Hawaii, a court in the Philippines charged her with corruption and issued an order for her arrest. In 2001, the warrant was issued and he was later released bail for $2400 to avoid being jailed. Subsequently, after years of terror and abuse against her late husband, the Marcos family agreed to pay $150 million to victims of human rights and abuse..