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TEODORE L. LOCSIN JR.

• Philippine politician, diplomat, lawyer, and former journalist
• B0rn on November 15, 1948
• Once served as Makati City Congressman and Cory Aquino’s speech writer
• Current Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations (UN)

• The speech was impassioned, deeply personal, and effective; interrupted 11 times by applause and bookended with standing ovations.

• President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, moved triumphantly through Congress with an emotional appeal for new aid and support for Philippines that drew an immediate response.

• Addressing a standing-room-only joint session of Congress, Aquino related the history of her late husband Benigno, whose assassination in August 1983 triggered the peaceful revolution that brought her to power.

• Corazon Aquino discussed the death of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, and how his death awoken the Filipino’s to opposed the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos.

• All throughout her speech, she only address Ferdinand Marcos as a “dictator”.

Ordeal that Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino suffered from Ferdinand Marcos.

• He detained her husband along with thousands of others - Senators, publishers, and anyone who had spoken up for the democracy.

• They locked him up in a tiny, nearly airless cell in a military camp in the north. They stripped him naked and held a threat of a sudden midnight execution over his head.

• They put him on trial for subversion, murder and a host of other crimes before a military commission.

• Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino died.

But his death was the country’s resurrection and the courage and faith by which alone they could be free again. The dictator had called him a nobody. Yet, two million people threw aside their passivity and fear and escorted Ninoy Aquino to his grave.

• And so began the revolution that has brought Cory Aquino to democracy’s most famous home, the Congress of the United States.

EDSA People Power Revolution

Death of Ninoy Aquino

“So, in giving we receive, in losing we find, and out of defeat we snatched our victory. ”

She also said the status of the Philippines in which the restoration of full constitutional government.

-New democracy

-National and local elections

Communist Insurgency

• Marcos set aside democracy to save it from a communist insurgency that numbered less than five hundred.

• By the time he fled, the insurgency had grown to more than six thousand.

• She had a dialogue with President Reagan for strong relationship between two countries.

• The alliance between US and Philippines began for the new democracy.

• Philippines earned $ 4 billion in foreign exchange but spent $ 2 billion "to pay just the interest on a debt whose benefits the Filipino people never received."

• "We fought for honor, and, if only for honor, we shall pay," she said, agreeing to pay the debt that was stolen by Marcos. "And yet, should we have to wring the payments from the sweat of our men's faces and sink all the wealth piled up by the bondsman’s two hundred fifty years of unrequited toil?"

“Today I say, join us America as we build a new home for democracy; another haven for the oppressed so it may stand as a shining testament of our two nations’ commitment to freedom.”

• She ended her speech with this statement, that convinces the senators or members of the US Congress to help the Philippines through financial aid for economy and restoration of our country.

• The House of Representatives voted to give the Philippines an additional $200 million in economic aid. The Senate ultimately followed suit, giving the Philippines a total of $500 million in U.S. aid for fiscal year 1987.

CONTRIBUTION OF THE MATERIALS TO THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE

• Corazon Aquino’s speech demystify the experiences the Filipino’s had during and aftermath of Martial Law.

• The speech encompasses the debt of the Philippines because of Marcos regime.

• As well as, the alliance between US and Philippines.

RELEVANCE TO CONTEMPORARY LIVES

• The speech became the source of data or information of the historians for the events that happened during and after the Martial Law, and gives detailed information about the ordeal that Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino suffered.

Answers

1. MARIA CORAZON SUMULONG COJUANGCO-AQUINO

2. TEODORE L. LOCSIN JR.

3. SEPTEMBER 18, 1986

4. $26 BILLION

5. - DEATH OF BENIGNO SIMEON “NINOY” AQUINO JR.

- ASK US FOR FINANCIAL AID TOWARDS REBUILDING THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY.

6. SALVADOR LAUREL

7. AUGUST 1, 2009

8-10. DEMORACY TESTAMENT FREEDOM