It was a shining moment in Philippine history – the 1986 People Power Revolution, a bloodless coup that toppled the 20-year dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. I was five years old then, and knew ...

Reporting from Seoul and Manila — Corazon C. Aquino, the unassuming housewife ... to the president’s growing power. When her husband’s activities led to his imprisonment at the start of ...

Has Philippine President Corazon Aquino turned to the right ... Although they considered Aquino–whose husband died by a military assassin`s bullet–a victim of Marcos, they also saw her ...

MANILA, Philippines – Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator ... Aquino’s unlikely rise began in 1983 after her husband was gunned down on the tarmac of Manila’s ...

Instead, she would tell the story of her husband’s homecoming and death ... And we Filipinos will always be grateful that Corazon Aquino was there when we needed her most.

But in August 1983, her husband returned to Manila and was gunned down at the airport by soldiers loyal to Marcos. Corazon Aquino returned to the Philippines to lead an impassioned throng in a ...

Her husband had, in fact ... for the manner of her assuming office and for the manner of her vacating it. Cory Aquino, former president of the Republic of the Philippines: born Paniqui ...

Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator ... He abolished the Congress and jailed Aquino's husband and thousands of opponents, journalists and activists without charges.

Hillary Clinton, then US Secretary of State, sent a message: “Cory Aquino was beloved by her nation and admired by the world for her extraordinary courage after the assassination of her husband ...

Lito was once the personal chauffeur to Corazon Aquino, who was elected president of the Philippines after her husband, Benigno, returned from exile to oppose the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and was ...

There was a mythic quality to Corazon Aquino’s ascent ... and seemingly harbored no political ambitions until her husband’s murder in 1983. She took over as leader of the opposition and ...