Primitivo Mijares

Personal life and legacy

Mijares was married in the Philippines to the future Pasay City RTC Branch 108 Judge Priscilla de Villa Castillo on February 23, 1956 in Manila. The couple had four children, Perla, Jose Antonio, Pilita, Luis Manuel ("Boyet"). The family lived in Project 6, Quezon City, with neighboring journalists. Author Author Raissa Robles paid tribute to his son Boyet in the introduction to her book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again.

Works Mijares only published one book, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos (1976), an exposé on the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos. The annotated version of the book was relaunched in 2017 by Mijares's grandson, JC Mijares Gurango, along with the Bantayog ng mga Bayani and Ateneo de Manila University Press. It was relaunched on February 21, right before the 31st anniversary of the People Power Revolution. After the People Power Revolution and again immediately after the 2022 Philippine general election, the book quickly sold out.

In popular culture The term conjugal dictatorship is generally used in pop culture and academic circles whenever there is mention of the Marcos dictatorship, due to Mijares's book which was his only book before his disappearance.

Mijares and his son Boyet were featured in a nine-minute song called, "Primitivo Mijares Requiem" which was sung by Jose Paulo dela Cruz and produced by Francis Tanseco, a painter in the United States whose works have been featured at the London embassy.