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Identify five (5) points highlighted by President Corazon Aquino in her

speech before the U.S. Congress on September 18, 1986. Explain their
significance.
➢ The speech is a part anti-Marcos propaganda, element searching for
sympathy from listeners, element soliciting for assist from america. A
from the so-referred to as harm as a result of her predecessor. to in
search of sympathy from her listeners, She associated her enjoy she
lower back to the Philippines to bury her husband, former Senator
Benigno Aquino, Jr. who became assassinated on the Manila International
Airport. She became looking to enchantment to her American listeners
that she became an aggrieved widow. Her husband must now no longer
have come lower back after being warned via way of means of Marcos.
And he became alleged to go back to the Philippines after he were given
properly from his coronary heart surgical procedure in Texas, however
alternatively he lingered on and stayed for 2 years. He even went out of
doors of the Philippines to fulfill with anti-Marcos factors and took a
fellowship in one of the American universities. As to looking for assist from
the US, she mentioned the gargantuan overseas debt and that she
become soliciting for leniency from the overseas lenders particularly the
IMF-World Bank. She stated that the loans from overseas lenders went to
crooks and corrupt officers however offered no proofs The subsequent
factor became that the United States spent lots of treasure looking to hold
democracy however she stated that the Philippines is a getting better
democracy popping out of the nightmare of dictatorship. She became
implying that the United States have to assist the Philippines which
became rebuilding itself as a democracy. (How became that once she
fired all elected individuals of the legislature and the nearby authorities
officers upon assuming electricity in 1986?)

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