My friend told me that the former president in our country just died and I did not know about it because I did not watch news too much in the website where I watch my Filipino shows. I just noticed that her daughter who is a very popular TV host is not in the television so I guessed that something is going on because on her last appearance on TV she already said that she might not be seen on her shows because she wants to be with her mom all the time and to support her mom with her battles in her illness. Her mom is diagnose with colon cancer several years ago.
Former President Corazon Aquino is a mother of five children and wife of Benigno Aquino the famous senator who were being assassinated in an airport; in his time he is one of the first person arrested and put in jail during Martial Law because he is one of the most outspoken critic of President Marcos during that time. After her husband assassination, she became more visible and active to pursue her husband's battle to set our country free from a dictator president.
She accepted the offer to run as a candidate for presidency against former President Marcos during snap election. She became the first woman president in the Philippines in the year 1986. Even though she did not have much experience about it and still had a five children to raise alone by herself and a country that is falling apart that needs her attention and some people that are against her because she is only a woman and during that time they did not think that she is capable of the job, but she manages to accomplish it all.
She has a very clean records and does not involve in anything bad during her six years in service to the country. Though she is not a president anymore she is still very popular to the Filipinos and she is well-respected. Her contribution to my country really means a lot both she and her husband are considered heroes in the Philippine history.
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