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Aug 1, 2009 · Maria Corazon Aquino, popularly known as Cory, was born on Jan. 25, 1933, in Tarlac Province in central Luzon, the sixth of eight children of José Cojuangco. Like her future husband, she came ...
Corazon Aquino was born on January 25, 1933 in Paniqui, Tarlac in the Philippines. Her birth name was Maria Corazon Sumulong Conjuangco. Her parents owned a sugar plantation and were one of the richest families in the area. The sixth out of eight children, Aquino focused on her studies and her Catholic beliefs.
Aquino fue elogiada por su apoyo de la democracia, y fue seleccionada como la Persona del Año en 1986 por la Revista Time. A pesar de su enorme popularidad y carisma personal y de la nueva constitución, Aquino continuó enfrentándose a repetidos intentos de golpes de Estado militares y a la insurrección comunista.
Aug 1, 2009 · Corazon Aquino, the former president of the Philippines who ushered in democracy after two decades of dictatorship under Ferdinand Marcos, has died aged 76. She died after losing a 16-month battle ...
President Corazon Aquino assumed office in 1986, following the removal of Ferdinand Marcos from presidential office. She served as president of the Philippines from 1986 until 1992. As president, Aquino restored democracy by abolishing the legislature, declaring a revolutionary government, and appointing a fifty-member commission to write a new constitution, approved in 1987. In 1988,…
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Corazon Aquino appointed a commission to write a new constitution that restored the bicameral Congress that had been abolished by Marcos; it was ratified by a landslide vote. Aquino held elections for the new Congress and broke up the economic monopolies held by Marcos’s allies.
Dec 27, 2022 · Corazon Aquino, popularly known as Tita Cory, served as president of the Philippines. She is the first female president in Asia, establishing several democratic and humanitarian reform programs following the ousting of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. Her presidency started with the end of the dictatorial rule in the Philippines.
