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==Later life and death== After the tumultuous snap elections of 1986, the First [[People Power Revolution|EDSA Revolution]] broke out. During a television conference, Ver insistently advised Marcos to give him orders to fire on the swelling number of protesters, but Marcos refused to and gave the order to disperse the crowd without shooting.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Branigin |first1=William |title=Rebels, Marcos Contest Control of Philippines |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/02/24/rebels-marcos-contest-control-of-philippines/2c18fa71-45dc-423f-a3e1-9cd187dec323/ |access-date=June 14, 2021 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=February 24, 1986 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Alejandrino |first1=Jose |title=Journal of an Unknown Knight |date=November 24, 2015 |publisher=Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |isbn=978-621-01-0084-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCFqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT80 |access-date=June 14, 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="officialgazette.gov.ph">{{Cite web|title=The Fall of the Dictatorship {{!}} GOVPH|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/the-fall-of-the-dictatorship/|access-date=February 26, 2022|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|language=en-US}}</ref> Following the Revolution, Ver and his family along with the Marcoses were exiled to [[Hawaii]]. Facing [[Federal racketeering laws|federal racketeering charges]], Ver left the United States using a [[Paraguayan]] passport, and transited to [[Austria]], then finally to [[Mannheim]], [[Germany]] where he joined his younger children.<ref name="ABS-CBN News 24 Feb 2014">{{cite news |last1=Lirio |first1=Gerry |title=Son asked General Ver: Dad, did you kill Ninoy? |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/02/24/14/son-asked-general-ver-dad-did-you-kill-ninoy-0 |access-date=June 7, 2021 |work=ABS-CBN News |date=February 24, 2014 |language=en}}</ref> He was not allowed to return to the country during the administration of Presidents [[Corazon Aquino]] and [[Fidel V. Ramos]]. He returned during the presidency of [[Joseph Estrada]] but faced lawsuits that linked him to the [[assassination of Ninoy Aquino]] and fall guy Rolando Galman.<ref name=isdead>{{cite news|last1=Vanzi|first1=Sol Jose|title=Newsflash !!! General Ver is Dead|url=http://www.newsflash.org/199811/hl/hl001095.htm|access-date=February 26, 2016|publisher=Philippine Headline News Online|date=November 21, 1998|archive-date=July 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705170820/http://www.newsflash.org/199811/hl/hl001095.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Gavilan|first=Jodesz|date=August 20, 2016|title=LOOK BACK: The Aquino assassination|url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/look-back-ninoy-aquino-assassination|access-date=July 15, 2021|website=Rappler|language=en}}</ref> On November 21, 1998, Ver died of pulmonary complications in a hospital in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]], two months before his 79th birthday.<ref name=isdead/><ref>{{cite news|title=Marcos Ally Ver Dies In Bangkok|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22133570.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505014403/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22133570.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 5, 2016|access-date=February 26, 2016|publisher=The Filipino Express|date=December 6, 1998}}</ref>
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