 Cory Aquino - symbol of Philippine democracy Babaylan Europe joins the Filipino nation at home and abroad in honouring the memory of President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, widow of Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. and first woman President of the Philippines as well as in Asia. She did her countrymen and women proud, the Filipinos that her husband Ninoy Aquino referred to as “worth dying for” when as a so-called housewife, she reluctantly ran -and won- against longtime dictator Ferdinand Marcos during the “snap elections” in 1986 when the two main military figures of the Marcos regime Chief of Staff Gen Fidel Rraoms and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile turned sides and supported her leading to the crumbling of the conjugal dictatorsip of the Marcoses.The bloodless revolution became the model of political change for many other countries the world over leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and ascent of Russia, the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia and many more. Corazon Aquino put the Philippines in the world map in dignity.
As part of Womankind Babaylan pays tribute to this singular all time heroine Cory for bringing back democracy to the Philippines by redrafting a new Constitution that limits to 6 years the term of the Presidency, by reviving the once vibrant free Philippine press, restoring the respect for Judiciary, pardoning political prisoners and paying the nations’ foreign debts. Goodbye Tita Cory and Thank you for making the Filipinos proud to be Pinoy once again if only for a short time in our troubled history as a nation. Long live true People’s Power; Mabuhay ang Pilipinas. |
