AN ACCOUNT of the Martial Law regime written by Marcos’s chief propagandist, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos is considered one of the most authoritative accounts of the early days of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos’s rule. Primitivo Mijares paid dearly after its publication in 1975; he went into exile in the United States for fear of reprisals from the Marcoses, before disappearing shortly afterwards.