Cesar Virata, Marcos-era prime minister and finance chief, dies at 95

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Cesar Virata, a former Philippine prime minister and finance chief under Ferdinand Marcos, has died at age 95. A leading technocrat of the Marcos era, he sometimes opposed Imelda Marcos and influential associates over spending and economic policy.

The dictator’s longtime finance chief and one of his top technocrats, Cesar Virata had deep ties to the Ferdinand E. Marcos regime even as he sometimes pushed back against Imelda Marcos and powerful cronies over project spending and economic policy