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    Corazon Aquino became president of the Philippines in 1986 after the People Power Revolution overthrew the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Seven months later, she gave a speech to the U.S. Congress where she discussed the restoration of democracy in the Philippines and thanked America for its support. She spoke of her late husband Ninoy Aquino's assassination and role in inspiring the peaceful revolution. Aquino emphasized that the revolution respected life and freedoms, and her goal was to reintegrate insurgents and honor the country's debts, despite the costs of Marcos' rule.

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    Corazon Aquino became president of the Philippines in 1986 after the People Power Revolution overthrew the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Seven months later, she gave a speech to the U.S. Congress where she discussed the restoration of democracy in the Philippines and thanked America for its support. She spoke of her late husband Ninoy Aquino's assassination and role in inspiring the peaceful revolution. Aquino emphasized that the revolution respected life and freedoms, and her goal was to reintegrate insurgents and honor the country's debts, despite the costs of Marcos' rule.

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    Corazon Aquino became president of the Philippines in 1986 after the People Power Revolution overthrew the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Seven months later, she gave a speech to the U.S. Congress where she discussed the restoration of democracy in the Philippines and thanked America for its support. She spoke of her late husband Ninoy Aquino's assassination and role in inspiring the peaceful revolution. Aquino emphasized that the revolution respected life and freedoms, and her goal was to reintegrate insurgents and honor the country's debts, despite the costs of Marcos' rule.

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    Corazon Aquino became president of the Philippines in 1986 after the People Power Revolution overthrew the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos. Seven months later, she gave a speech to the U.S. Congress where she discussed the restoration of democracy in the Philippines and thanked America for its support. She spoke of her late husband Ninoy Aquino's assassination and role in inspiring the peaceful revolution. Aquino emphasized that the revolution respected life and freedoms, and her goal was to reintegrate insurgents and honor the country's debts, despite the costs of Marcos' rule.

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    Revisiting Corazon Aquino's Speech Before the U.S.

    Congress

    Corazon "Cory" Cojuangco Aquino


    - functioned as the symbol of the restoration of democracy and the
    overthrow of the Marcos Dictatorship in 1986.
    -widow of the slain Marcos oppositionist and former Senator
    Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. (died August 23 1988.)
    -she came from a rich haciendero family in Tarlac and owned vast
    estates of sugar plantation and whose relatives occupy local and
    national government positions.

    EDSA People Power


    -installed Cory Aquino in the presidency, put the Philippines in
    the international spotlight for overthrowing a dictator through
    peaceful moans. Cory was easily a figure of the said revolution.

    ***Her image as a mourning, widowed housewife who had always


    been in the shadow of her husband and relatives and had no
    experience in politics was juxtaposed against Marcos's
    statesmanship, eloquence, charisma, and cunning political skills.
    ***The People Power Revolution of 1986 was widely recognized
    around the world for its peaceful character.

    ***The Marcos regime greatly suffered a crisis of legitimacy.


    Marcos had to do something to prove to his allies in the United
    States that he remained to be the democratically anointed leader
    of the country. He called for a Snap Election in February 1986,
    where Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, the widow of the slain senator
    was convinced to run against Marcos.

    ***The canvassing was rigged to Marcos's favor but the people


    expressed their protests against the corrupt and authoritarian
    government. Leading military officials of the regime and Martial
    Law orchestrators themselves, Juan Ponce Enrile and Fidel V.
    Ramos, plotted to take over the presidency, until civilians heeded
    the call of then Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin and other
    civilian leaders gathered in EDSA.
    ***The overwhelming presence of civilians in EDSA successfully
    turned a coup into a civilian demonstration. The thousands of
    people who gathered overthrew Ferdinand Marcos from the
    presidency after 21 years.

    September 18, 1986


    -seven months since Cory became president, she went to the
    United States and spoke before the joint session of the US.

    Things Cory discussed in the US Congress:


    ***3 times they lost Ninoy
    1 “They locked him up in a tiny, nearly airless cell in a military
    camp in the north. They stripped him naked and held a threat of a
    sudden midnight execution over his head.
    2 “Ninoy challenged the authority and went on a fast. He called off
    the fast on the 40th day.”
    3 (Ninoy's death was the third and the last time that Cory and
    their children lost Ninoy.)

    ***Democracy ended the authoritarian government and


    Dictatorship of Marcos
    ***Cory emphasized the importance of the EDSA Revolution in
    terms of being a "limited revolution that respected the life and
    freedom of every Filipino." Cory attributed the peaceful EDSA
    Revolution to the martyrdom of Ninoy.
    ***She also boasted of the restoration of a fully constitutional
    government whose constitution gave utmost respect to the Bill of
    Rights.
    ***Cory's peace agenda involves political initiatives and re-
    integration program to persuade insurgents to leave the
    countryside and return to the mainstream society to participate in
    the restoration of democracy.

    $26 billion- Philippine foreign debt at the time of her speech. This
    debt had ballooned during the Marcos regime. Cory expressed her
    intention to honor those debts despite mentioning that the people
    did not benefit from such debts.
    She even remarked that given the peaceful character of EDSA
    People Power Revolution, "ours must have been the cheapest
    revolution ever."
    Cory ended her speech by thanking America for serving as home
    to her family for what she referred to as the "three happiest years
    of our lives together."

    Analysis of Cory Aquino's Speech

    -Cory Aquino's speech was an important event in the political and


    diplomatic history of the country because it has arguably
    cemented the legitimacy of the EDSA government in the
    international arena.
    - The speech talks of her family background, especially her
    relationship with her late husband, Ninoy Aquino.
    - It is well known that it was Ninoy who served as the real leading
    figure of the opposition at that time. Indeed, Ninoy's eloquence
    and charisma could very well compete with that of Marcos.
    - The ideology or the principles of the new democratic government
    can also be seen in the same speech.

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