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    Corazon Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She ran for president in 1986 against the incumbent Ferdinand Marcos after her husband, who was a prominent critic of Marcos, was assassinated. Although both Aquino and Marcos claimed to have won the fraudulent election, widespread protests led to Marcos fleeing the country and Aquino assuming the presidency. As president, Aquino worked to establish democracy, human rights, and justice in the Philippines after the authoritarian rule of Marcos. She faced several coup attempts but was able to complete her term and establish democratic reforms before retiring from office.

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    Corazon Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She ran for president in 1986 against the incumbent Ferdinand Marcos after her husband, who was a prominent critic of Marcos, was assassinated. Although both Aquino and Marcos claimed to have won the fraudulent election, widespread protests led to Marcos fleeing the country and Aquino assuming the presidency. As president, Aquino worked to establish democracy, human rights, and justice in the Philippines after the authoritarian rule of Marcos. She faced several coup attempts but was able to complete her term and establish democratic reforms before retiring from office.

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    Corazon Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She ran for president in 1986 against the incumbent Ferdinand Marcos after her husband, who was a prominent critic of Marcos, was assassinated. Although both Aquino and Marcos claimed to have won the fraudulent election, widespread protests led to Marcos fleeing the country and Aquino assuming the presidency. As president, Aquino worked to establish democracy, human rights, and justice in the Philippines after the authoritarian rule of Marcos. She faced several coup attempts but was able to complete her term and establish democratic reforms before retiring from office.

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    Corazon Aquino was the first woman president of the Philippines. She ran for president in 1986 against the incumbent Ferdinand Marcos after her husband, who was a prominent critic of Marcos, was assassinated. Although both Aquino and Marcos claimed to have won the fraudulent election, widespread protests led to Marcos fleeing the country and Aquino assuming the presidency. As president, Aquino worked to establish democracy, human rights, and justice in the Philippines after the authoritarian rule of Marcos. She faced several coup attempts but was able to complete her term and establish democratic reforms before retiring from office.

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    The document discusses Corazon Aquino's journey from homemaker to becoming the first female president of the Philippines after the assassination of her husband and fraudulent election of Ferdinand Marcos.

    Aquino faced numerous challenges including dealing with factious parties, natural disasters, frequent power failures, and at least seven coup attempts against her government.

    Aquino planned to protect the countryside by disarming private armies that roamed rural areas and establishing industries there. She also wanted to revitalize the sugar industry by breaking monopolies.

    The Autobiography of Pres.

    Corazon Cojuangco
    Aquino
    Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (1933) was the first woman to run for
    the office of the president of the Republic of the Philippines. The results of
    the 1986 election were so fraudulent that both Aquino and her opponent,
    the incumbent, Ferdinand Marcos declared victory. As a result of the
    election, the Filipino people rose in protest and Marcos was forced to flee
    the country and Aquino assumed the office of president.
    Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was born on January 25, 1933, the sixth
    of eight children born to Jose Cojuangco of Tarlac, a prosperous province
    65 miles northwest of Manila, the Philippines capital. The Cojuangco’s
    were members of a wealthy landowning family prominent in politics.
    Aquino attended an exclusive Catholic school for girls in Manila
    before traveling to America to attend Philadelphia's Raven Hill Academy.
    After earning a degree in French and mathematics from New York's Mount
    Saint Vincent College in 1953, she returned to the Philippines and
    enrolled in a Manila law school. While at law school she met her future
    husband, Benigno Aquino and married him in 1954. The marriage united
    two of Tarlac's most prominent families.

    The Politician's Wife


    Aquino's husband belonged to a family whose involvement in
    politics went as far back as the last century. One year after they were
    married, Aquino's husband was elected mayor of the city of Concepcion at
    the age of 22. Her husband was considered one ofthe Philippines'
    brightest political hopes.
    Moving up in politics, Aquino's husband became the youngest
    territorial governor and later the youngest senator in the Philippines.
    Through out all her husband's political successes, Aquino stayed in the
    background, preferring to concentrate her energies on raising their four
    daughters and a son.
    As her husband rose in prominence, he became an outspoken critic
    of the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. When Marcos declared
    martial law on September 21, 1972, Aquino's husband was one of the
    first persons arrested and put in jail. During the long years of her
    husband's incarceration from 1972 to 1980, Aquino's role as a quiet wife
    slowly changed. Becoming her husband's main link to the outside world,
    she was instrumental in having his statements passed along to the press
    and to activists outside the prison walls. From inside his cell, Aquino's
    husband even ran for a seat in Parliament, with his wife conducting a
    large portion of the campaign.
    In 1980, Aquino's husband was released from jail in order to
    undergo heart surgery in the United States. Aquino's husband worked as
    a research fellow at Harvard University for the next three years. His
    family lived with him in the Boston area and his wife described the time
    as the best years of her life.
    In 1983 supporters of the anti-Marcos factions persuaded Aquino's
    husband to return to the Philippines and to lead their cause. When his
    plane landed on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport on August
    21, 1983, Aquino's husband was assassinated. A commission formed to
    investigate the murder indicted the military men assigned to escort him
    as well as their military superiors. However, the court which eventually
    tried them for the murder acquitted all 26 defendants.

    Homemaker Turns Politician


    Her husband's assassination served as the turning point of Aquino's
    life. As her dead husband became the rallying focus of anti-Marcos groups
    she, as his widow, became the unifying figure for the different factions of
    the opposition. Aquino was catapulted into the role of keeping the
    unity alive. On October 15, 1985, the Aquino presidential campaign was
    launched at the National Press Club in Manila by 250 founding members,
    many of whom were businesspeople and professionals.
    Aquino agreed to run if one million supporters signed an
    endorsement of her candidacy and if President Marcos called for a snap
    election. The supporters collected more than one million signatures, and
    her candidacy was endorsed by six opposition political parties as the
    common candidate for president in the election called for February 7,
    1986. The political support she amassed, and the exoneration of the
    military men tried for her husband's murder, made Aquino accept the
    mandate to run for the presidency, "not in vengeance but in search
    of justice."
    She picked Salvador Laurel, leader of the opposition's largest
    faction, as her running mate. Initial negotiations fell through in a
    disagreement about which party's name to carry--her husband's LABAN
    (Fight) Party or Laurel's UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic
    Organization). Before the deadline for filing candidacy she and Laurel
    agreed to run under the UNIDO banner.
    Countering Marcos's charges of her political inexperience, Aquino
    counted as her main asset her diametrical opposition to the president.
    Her supporters considered her a fresh new face with a reputation for
    moral integrity. Her main assets in the campaign were her reputation for
    moral integrity along with her avowal of her slain husband's ideals. To
    these were added the quiet support of the influential Roman Catholic
    Church in the Philippines, whose prelate Jamie Cardinal Sin was
    instrumental in the Aquino-Laurel reconciliation.
    The homemaker-turned-politician responded to the challenge with
    enthusiasm and a singular commitment to the cause of justice. Her
    opponent, Marcos, had extended his term of office for more than 20 years
    through a declaration of martial law and constitutional changes that
    increased his powers. The true results of the election may never be
    known as the incumbent forces used intimidation, scattered violence, and
    overt fraud to declare Marcos the winner. The people took to the streets
    in protest; some army leaders revolted; the United States expressed
    its indignation. Less than three weeks after his alleged election victory in
    February 1986, Marcos fled the Philippines. Aquino became the
    acknowledged president of the republic.

    The Presidency and Beyond


    Aquino admitted that she faced numerous challenges as the new
    Filipino president. The release of 441 political prisoners and the forced
    retirement of 22 pro-Marcos generals were among her first actions as
    president. She also reinstated the writ of habeas corpus, the right of a
    prisoner to appear before a judge, and abolished the government's ability
    to imprison people at will, which had been in effect since 1981. Aquino
    promised to promote the right to assemble peaceably, and free speech
    along with prosecuting corruption and abusers of human rights.
    Protecting the countryside was another of Aquino's goals. She
    planned to accomplish this by disarming the private armies that roamed
    the rural areas and establish industries there. Aquino said she would
    revitalize the sugar industry by breaking the monopoly. She
    acknowledged the special relationship with the United States but
    emphasized that her concern was with the Filipinos, not the Americans.
    Aquino knew her popularity would wane and that her leadership
    would be harshly criticized. At least seven coups were directed at her
    government during her tenure as president, many times by former allies
    who had helped her come to power. Besides dealing with factious parties
    both within her cabinet and in the nation, Aquino had to contend with
    natural disasters and frequent power failures.
    In 1991, a constitutional amendment was passed by referendum
    which enabled Aquino to remain president until June 30, 1992. Her
    successor was Fidel Ramos, her former secretary of defense and Marcos'
    former deputy chief of staff of the armed forces. Ramos, who assisted
    Aquino in fending off the coup attempts, has continued to support
    Aquino's democratic ideals. Aquino has still retained her popularity with
    the Filipino people and works for reform by participating in cooperatives
    and non-governmental organizations in the Philippines.

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