Pacifico Marcos
{{Short description|Filipino physician}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Pacifico Marcos
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| birth_name = Pacifico Edralin Marcos
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|01|30}}
| birth_place = Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippine Islands, U.S.
| death_date = Possible {{Abbr|c.|circa}} {{death year and age|2016|1919}}
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| nationality = {{flagicon|Philippines}} Filipino
| field = Medical doctor
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| parents = Mariano Rubio Marcos
Josefa Edralin Marcos
}}
Pacífico Edralín Marcos (born January 30, 1919, date of death unknown) was a Filipino physician and known younger brother of former President of the Philippines Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Life
Dr. Marcos was born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte to Mariano Rubio Marcos and Josefa Quetulio Edralin.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3rMeAAAAMAAJ&q=pacifico+marcos+born|title = Marcos, the War Years|last1 = Mella|first1 = Cesar T.|last2 = Reyes|first2 = Gracianus R.|year = 1981}} Marcos, a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and a member of the Mu Sigma Phi, was a President of the Philippine Medical Association.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalpressclub.org.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=10|title=National Press Club: Meet the Press|first=Antonio|last=Zumel|accessdate=December 16, 2010|archive-date=March 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316075539/http://www.nationalpressclub.org.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=10|url-status=dead}} In 1971 he was appointed the first chair of the nine-member Philippine Medical Care Commission.{{cite news|title=MARCOS'S MOTHER, AND HER HOSPITAL BILL, ARE LEFT BEHIND|work=New York Times|date=March 30, 1986|page=A.12|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/30/world/marcos-s-mother-and-her-hospital-bill-are-left-behind.html}} This commission was tasked to provide medical insurance to poor Filipinos. The commission's program ran for almost a quarter of a century. He was chair for 12 years.{{cite web|url=http://www.asean-ssa.org/philipines-PHIC/Briefhistory.asp|title=NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM (NHIP) Philippine Health Insurance Corporation|publisher=asean-ssa.org|accessdate=December 16, 2010}}
In the 1970s, Marcos headed a defense fund which supported two Filipina nurses accused of killing 10 patients in the Ann Arbor Hospital Murders. He called their conviction a "miscarriage of justice".{{cite magazine|magazine=Time|date=July 25, 1977|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919117,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930064218/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919117,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Long Count to A Guilty Verdict}}
He owned, controlled, or had interests in 50 corporations,{{cite news|title=Iron Lady|first=KEYES |last=BEECH|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 24, 1980|page=B1}} including a large car dealership, a sugar mill called Consolidate Sugar Corporation,{{cite web|url=http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1989/jul1989/gr_68786_1989.html|title=Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT SECOND DIVISION G.R. No. 68786 July 21, 1989 DEVELOPMENT BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, et al.|date=July 21, 1989|accessdate=December 16, 2010|publisher=lawphil.net}} a real estate firm called Citizens Development Inc,{{cite news|title=Jollibee CFO: My job is to prepare the company for all kinds of shocks|first=Doris|last=Dumlao|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=November 20, 2010|url=http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20101120-304324/Jollibee-CFO-My-job-is-to-prepare-the-company-for-all-kinds-of-shocks|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123123834/http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20101120-304324/Jollibee-CFO-My-job-is-to-prepare-the-company-for-all-kinds-of-shocks|archivedate=November 23, 2010}} and Philippine Seed Inc.{{cite web|url=http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2001/aug2001/gr_135482_2001.html|title=Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT EN BANC G.R. No. 130140 |date=October 25, 1999|accessdate=December 16, 2010|publisher=lawphil.net}}
Marcos did not involve himself in politics, and distanced himself from his brother's regime when it grew unpopular during the 1980s.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} In a 1986 interview he said he was unaware of the extent of his brother's wealth. He did not join the Marcos family in Hawaii after the EDSA Revolution, and opted to stay in the Philippines in retirement.
In 1998 Marcos was the subject of a lawsuit over an under-collateralized behest loan in the amount of ₱60 million which his company, Bagumbayan Corp, received from the Development Bank of the Philippines. It was one of a series of lawsuits over behest loans given to associates of President Marcos.{{cite news|title=PCGG asks Court to consolidate 17 behest loan cases on appeal|work=BusinessWorld|location=Manila|date=December 16, 1998|page=1}} The case was finally dismissed in 2007 by the Supreme Court, which said there was no evidence that the loan was given simply because Pacifico Marcos was a "crony" of the former president.{{cite news|title=SC rules in favor of Marcos brother|first=Jomar |last=Canlas|work=The Manila Times|date=November 29, 2007}}
His son, Mariano "Nonong" Marcos II, who became a provincial board member in Ilocos Norte,{{cite news|title=Ilocos Norte awaits decision of Marcoses|first=Cristina|last=Arzadon|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=February 28, 2007|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20070228-52015/Ilocos_Norte_awaits_decision_of_Marcoses|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006024723/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20070228-52015/Ilocos_Norte_awaits_decision_of_Marcoses|archivedate=October 6, 2012}} died on February 15, 2019.
Death
By 2017, news reports indicated that Fortuna Marcos-Barba, the youngest of the Marcos siblings, was the only member of that generation still alive.{{Cite news |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/16/16/meet-ferdinand-marcos-only-living-sibling |title=Meet Ferdinand Marcos' only living sibling |last=Alba |first=Grace |date=2016-11-16 |work=ABS CBN News and Public Affairs |access-date=2019-02-16}} Reports from the February 2019 death of Pacifico's son Mariano Marcos II also reported that Pacifico had predeceased Mariano II.{{Cite news |url=http://www.rappler.com//nation/223617-ilocos-norte-vice-governor-candidate-mariano-marcos-ii-dies |title=Ilocos Norte vice gubernatorial candidate dies |work=Rappler |access-date=2019-02-16 |language=en}}
References
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