The Relatives: Controversial Supt. Marcos Is Related To Dictator Marcos

The controversial CIDG head traces his roots to Ilocos Norte, the home of their relatives, the Marcoses, that most Filipinos know – and hate.

THE RELATIVES. Police Supt. Marvin Marcos, the controversial head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Region 8 (Eastern Visayas), traces his blood relationship to the late Former Dictator Ferdinand Edralin Marcos.

The first thing to be in question about their filial relationship is their skin tone – where Supt. Marcos is white or mestizo while the late former dictator was brown, the usual Filipino color.

Police Supt. Marvin Marcos
Police Supt. Marvin Marcos.

It was explained that Supt. Marcos got his mestizo looks from his grandfather on his father’s side who was an American citizen but it was his grandmother on his mother’s side who gave him the family name that makes him relatives with the president who declared Martial Law on 1972.

The CIDG head said that his maternal great-great-grandfather was Anastacio, a brother of Mariano Marcos, who was the father of Ferdinand who later became 10th President of the Philippines.

Marcos’ grandfather, Theodore Candon, was an American serviceman from Michigan, USA but later separated from his Filipina wife and went home to the US.

Teodoro, Supt. Marcos’ father, said that his grandmother on the mother’s side told him to use the family name of his mother because his parents had separated already but his birth certificate reflected Candon as his family name though he never used it.

Teodoro never met his father and was left to his grandmother when he was only four or five years old when his mother worked in Manila.

Supt. Marcos and Ferdinand Marcos relatives
The late former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.

The Marcoses in Eastern Visayas trace their roots to Ilocos Norte province, the home of their relatives, the late former dictator and his family.

The father of former President Ferdinand Marcos, Mariano, was a brother of Anastacio, the maternal great-grandfather of Teodoro.

Anastacio was named Fabian at birth but he changed it so that he would not be identified as a member of a group supporting a revolution against the Catholic Church being brewed by Gregorio Aglipay, who later founded the Philippine Independent Church.

As to the question, “Are Supt. Marcos and the Marcoses relatives?“, it is already answered with a categorical “yes” but as to the question, “Is being controversial running through the blood among the Marcoses“, it is up to the Filipinos.

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