Image from Calavera Comics blog
I’m close to tears when I think of the time Ninoy was shot and my parents were so depressed and helpless. But Cory was there to give them and many other Filipinos hope. This hope allowed their generation to send Marcos running (actually he was flown to Hawaii by the US military). I hope that my generation and future generations remain strong and committed as we continue to struggle for a better nation.
So why did I love Cory?
- She was Ninoy Aquino’s better half.
- She and Ninoy were the icons of the 1986 people’s revolution that ousted supreme dictator Marcos.
- She was instrumental to the framing of a great constitution.
- She was an honest and sincere president.
- She used her influence to help stop selfish attempts to amend the Philippine constitution.
- She reminded people that they had a voice and that they can go to the streets to express their discontent.
- Her revolutionary government failed to stamp out the endemic corruption in the Philippine political system.
- She fought hard to keep the US bases in the Philippines.
- She didn’t stop foreign debt servicing.
- She was overtly pro-church in an overpopulated country intoxicated in dogma for centuries.
- Her family used legal loopholes to keep their vast landholdings and resist the constitutionally mandated land reform.
- She endorsed people like General Ramos for political office, strengthening the politicization of the military.
