SPEECH OF CORY AQUINO AT THE US

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CONTENT AND THE ◼ ANALYZE THE HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE OF PRIMARY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SPEECH
SOURCES ON PHILIPPINE OF CORAZON AQUINO BEFORE
HISTORY BY WRITING A THE US CONGRESS USING THE
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BACKGROUND OF CORAZON “CORY” AQUINO

◼ BORN ON JANUARY 25, 1933 IN PANIQUI TARLAC

◼ BIRTH NAME: MARIA CORAZON SUMULONG COJUANGCO
◼ THE 11TH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
◼ THE FIRST FEMALE PRESEIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES AS SUPPORTED BY THE PEOPLE POWER
REVOLUTION
◼ BEST KNOWN AS THE WIFE OF BENIGNO “NINOY” AQUINO
CONTENT ON THE SPEECH OF CORAZON AQUINO AT THE U.S.
CONGRESS GIVEN ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1986.

◼ Anti- Marcos Propaganda

◼ Part seeking sympathy from the listeners
◼ Part asking for help from the US from the so-called damage by
her predecessor
◼ Part pandering to the American listeners
CONTENT ON THE SPEECH OF CORAZON AQUINO AT THE U.S.
CONGRESS GIVEN ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1986.

◼ Anti- Marcos Propaganda

◼ she talked about Marcos being a dictator. That Marcos
trampled on Philippine democracy and jailed thousands.
CONTENT ON THE SPEECH OF CORAZON AQUINO AT THE U.S.
CONGRESS GIVEN ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1986.

◼ Part seeking sympathy from the listeners

◼ She related her experience she returned to the Philippines to bury her husband, former Senator
Benigno Aquino, Jr. who was assassinated at the Manila International Airport. She was trying to
appeal to her American listeners that she was an aggrieved widow. (Her husband should not have
come back after being warned by Marcos. And he was supposed to return to the Philippines after
he got well from his heart surgery in Texas, but instead he lingered on and stayed for two years.
He even went outside of the Philippines to meet with anti-Marcos elements and took a fellowship
in one of the American universities. He decided to come back when Marcos became seriously ill
in 1983)
CONTENT ON THE SPEECH OF CORAZON AQUINO AT THE U.S.
CONGRESS GIVEN ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1986.

◼ Part asking for help from the US from the so-called

damage by her predecessor
◼ she talked about the huge foreign debt and that she was asking for
leniency from the foreign creditors especially the IMF-World Bank.
(She said that the loans from foreign creditors went to crooks and
corrupt officials but presented no proofs)
CONTENT ON THE SPEECH OF CORAZON AQUINO AT THE U.S.
CONGRESS GIVEN ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1986.
◼ Part pandering to the American listeners
The next point was that the US spent a lot of treasure trying to preserve democracy but she said
that the Philippines is a recovering democracy coming out of the nightmare of dictatorship. She was
implying that the US should support the Philippines which was rebuilding itself as a democracy. (How
was that when she fired all elected members of the legislature and the local government officials upon
assuming power in 1986?)
Finally, she called the Americans to support the Philippines and that a new era has dawned
(actually what happened was the restoration of the pre-1972 political elite domination of the country’s
politics and economy)
CONTRIBUTION AND RELEVANCE OF THE DOCUMENT IN
UNDERSTANDING THE GRAND NARRATIVE OF PHILIPPINE
HISTORY

The speech of the former President Corazon Aquino gives us the insights on how
Filipinos struggled to attain freedom and between the insisted resistance from the
past have inspired Filipino revolutionaries in our current era. It also gives
clarification about what really happened during the time of Ninoy Aquino
The document describe the struggles faced by the Aquino's to help the Philippines
achieve freedom. The document also mentioned about the debt incurred by the
former government before Cory Aquino. This speech also shows how
the dictatorship transforms into democratic government. From its president down
to its laws, order, and rules. The document also mentioned the killing of Ninoy
Aquino and the terror from torture and conviction during the Martial Law
CONTRIBUTION AND RELEVANCE OF THE DOCUMENT
INUNDERSTANDING THE GRAND NARRATIVE OF PHILIPPINE
HISTORY
It shows the problem faced by Cory Aquino as soon as
she became the President. For instance the poverty and
unemployment. The document mentioned two elections
occurred after the death of Ninoy Aquino. His wife
participated during the election and lose in the first
election. During the second which is snap election, she
became the president and declares democracy in the
country.
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