Cory Aquino
Pres. Cory Aquino at the UNIV (Rome) 1993:
Speech --> http://coryaquino.ph/story.asp?id=40&storyid=84
"Por medio de la oración, la persona humana reconoce su flaqueza, por alto que sea su oficio, por grande que sea la autoridad que ejerza... Tanto más alto el oficio, tanto mayor el poder, cuanto más debe REZAR...”
Una persona que reza muestra sabiduría... El efecto de la oración es añadir sabiduría a la audacia...
Biography below taken from:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090801-218236/Cory-Aquino-Biography
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First Posted 05:42:00 08/01/2009
Corazon C. Aquino
(Born- January 25, 1933)
Seventh and First Woman President of the Republic of the Philippines
(Term: February 25, 1986- June 30, 1992)
Corazon Aquino was a political leader and president from (1986 to 1992) of the Philippines.
In 1983 she succeeded her husband and senator, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. as leader of the opposition to then president Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino was assassinated in the same year at the then Manila International Airport following his arrival from the US where he stayed for seven years.
No one could have imagined that Mrs. Aquino would become president, the first woman to lead the country after Marcos was ousted in a military-backed popular revolt that she spearheaded in 1986.
When Marcos called for a presidential election in February 1986, Mrs. Aquino became the unified opposition's candidate. Although she was officially reported to have lost the election to Marcos, Aquino and her supporters challenged the results, charging widespread voting fraud.
High officials in the Philippine military soon publicly renounced Marcos’ continued rule and proclaimed Aquino the Philippines rightful president.
On Feb. 25, 1986, both Aquino and Marcos were inaugurated as president by their respective supporters but that same day Marcos fled the country.
In March 1986 then president Aquino appointed a commission that would rewrite the Constitution.
The revised Charter was ratified by a landslide vote in February 1987.
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Aquino was born to a wealthy family in Tarlac on Jan. 25, 1933. Her parents were Don Jose Cojuangco and Doña Demetria Sumulong. She was the sixth among the eight children of the Sumulong. Corazon Aquino's children are Maria Elena Aquino, Aurora Corazon, Victoria Eliza, Senator benigno Aquino III, and Kris, a TV and movie personality.
In 1946, Aquino’s family left for the US and she enrolled at Ravenhill Academy in Philadelphia. She finished her junior and senior years at Notre Dame College in New York. She entered Mount Saint Vincent College in New York City in 1949 where she finished a Bachelor of Arts, major in French. In 1953, she returned to the Philippines to take up law at the Far Eastern University, but then abandoned further studies in 1955 to marry Benigno Aquino Jr., who was then a promising young politician.
Before her entry into politics, Mrs. Aquino was a housewife, content with supporting her husband and raising five children.
Source: www.op.gov.ph/museum/pres_aquino.asp
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090801-218244/Nation-lost-mother-guiding-voice
Nation lost 'mother, guiding voice'
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First Posted 08:53:00 08/01/2009
The nation should keep the memory of former President Corazon Aquino alive by standing for truth, freedom and justice, especially at this time when the Constitution is under threat, former president Joseph Estrada said in a statement issued by his spokesperson.
Estrada condoled with the Aquinos, saying the nation lost a "mother" and a "guiding voice of the people."
"Today our country has lost a mother. This is a sad day for the Filipino people. President Aquino has not only been an icon of democracy but has stood as the guiding voice of our people since Edsa 1," said Margaux Salcedo.
"We wish she could have lived longer because we need her especially now that our Constitution is being threatened anew. Now we must honor her by practicing the principles embodied in our Constitution that she stood by -- truth, justice, freedom, love -- and by fighting for our democracy as she did," Estrada added.
Aquino supported the ouster of Estrada from Malacanang in January 2001. But both leaders found themselves side-by-side in the fight to amend the Constitution initiated by Congress since last year.
Que en paz descanse...
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