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Speech Before The US Congress

President Corazon Aquino gave a speech to the US Congress where she discussed the dictatorship in the Philippines and how the people obliged an election called by the dictatorship which led to her challenging the dictatorship as the opposition candidate. When the election results were announced showing her opponent as the victor, the people took to the streets and proclaimed Aquino as the rightful president, leading to the relatively peaceful People's Power Revolution that removed the dictatorship from power.

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Speech Before The US Congress

President Corazon Aquino gave a speech to the US Congress where she discussed the dictatorship in the Philippines and how the people obliged an election called by the dictatorship which led to her challenging the dictatorship as the opposition candidate. When the election results were announced showing her opponent as the victor, the people took to the streets and proclaimed Aquino as the rightful president, leading to the relatively peaceful People's Power Revolution that removed the dictatorship from power.

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President Corazon

Aquino’s Speech Before


the US Congress
Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was a Filipina politician who served as
the 11th president of the Philippines and first woman to run for the office
of the president of the Republic of the Philippines from 1986-1992.
Cory Aquino born on January 1933 at Paniqui, Tarlac. She died on August
1, 2009, at the age of 76 .
 She attended school in Manila until the age of 13, then finished her
education in the United States, first in Philadelphia and later in New York
City. She graduated from the College of Mount St. Vincent in New York in
1953, with a bachelor's degree in both French and mathematics.
Upon returning to the Philippines, she enrolled in law school in Manila
Teddy Boy Locsin
Teodoro "Teddy Boy" Lopez Locsin Jr.  is a Filipino politician, diplomat, lawyer, and former
journalist serving as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs since October 2018.

Locsin was born in Manila on November 15, 1948. His father was the prominent newspaperman
and publisher Teodoro Locsin Sr. from the Negrense branch of the Locsin family of Molo, Iloilo.
He studied in the Ateneo de Manila University and received a bachelor's degree in Law and
Jurisprudence. He also earned a Master of Laws degree from Harvard University.

He was publisher, editorial writer, and co-anchor and host of a number of national broadsheets,
radio and TV news shows. He was publisher of Today and Globe newspapers, host and co-anchor
of TV shows “Teditorial”, “The Assignment” and “Points of View”, and co-anchor of radio shows
“Executive Session” and “Karambola”.

He was also editorial writer of the Philippine Press and writer of Interaksyon. He had a brief stint
in the academe as lecturer at the US National Defense College. In government, he served as legal
counsel and speech writer to President Corazon Aquino, and speechwriter to Presidents Joseph
Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He was also elected to the Philippine House of
Representatives where he represented the First District of Makati City from 2001 and 2010.
Key Points
◽Ninoy challenged its authority and went on a fast, but his death was the country's resurrection
in the courage and faith by which alone they could be free again.
◽In an excess of arrogance, the dictatorship called for its doom in a snap election. The people
obliged. With over a million signatures, they drafted me to challenge the dictatorship. And Cory
obliged them.
◽$2 billion out of $4 billion, which was all the Filipinos could earn in the restrictive markets of the
world, went to pay just the interest of the debt.
◽When a subservient parliament announced
the opponent’s victory, the people turned out in the streets and proclaimed her (Cory Aquino) as
the President.
◽ People's Power Revolution was considered as the Cheapest Revolution in the history.
Contribution or relevance of the material in Understanding the Philippine History
 

◽The text reflects the social and political situation of the Philippines
during that time and accounts the first peaceful revolution in the
national history. It carries the grief of the people, which waged the war
against the evils of oppression as the Filipino people rally for the cause
of freedom. Such anguish turned into power which led to the nation's
greatest victory: the abolishment of a dictatorial government, giving
way to true liberty, the upliftment of human rights, and the protection
of the welfare of the Filipinos. Cory became a symbol for democracy
which empowered a politically

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