Corazon Aquino, Dead at 76

[CatWoman]

Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who came to political prominence in her own right after the assassination of her husband, opposition leader Benigno Aquino, has died in Manilla at the age of 76.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/07/corazon_aquino_dead_at_76.php?ref=fpblg

[MADem]

1. WOW. I remember those days so clearly, with her in her yellow suit.

Tempis fugit. K/R. RIP Corazon...

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. back when it was a big deal to have a woman leader...WAIT...it's still a big deal

[CatWoman]

3. I remember she had her husband buried still with the blood all over his body

she wanted the world to see what they did to him....

[tabasco]

4. She was a brave woman.

RIP.

[question everything]

5. R.I.P Mrs. Aquino

Perhaps, someday, our country, too, will be led by a woman.

[Octafish]

6. 'Friends' of Marcos killed her husband as he stepped off the plane.

Freaking global authoritarian axis of evil, chums through the BFEE-Institutional War Party.

Chalmers Johnson provides an excellent review of shiny things of concern to Ferdinand Marcos:

The Looting of Asia

...Twenty years after Santa Romana stopped searching in 1947, a secondary – and quite violent – hunt for gold began, carried out by Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos recovered at least $14 billion in gold – $6 billion from the sunken Japanese cruiser Nachi in Manila Bay, and $8 billion from the tunnel known as ‘Teresa 2’, 38 miles south of Manila in Rizal province. During 2001, Philippine politics were rocked when the former solicitor-general Francisco Chavez alleged that Irene Marcos-Araneta, Marcos’s youngest daughter, maintained an account worth $13.2 billion in Switzerland. Its existence apparently came to light when she tried to move it from the Union Bank of Switzerland to Deutsche Bank in Düsseldorf. Marcos, who personally supervised the opening of at least six sites and routinely used his thugs to steal any treasure that local peasants happened to find, died in exile in Honolulu in 1989. In 1998, the Supreme Court of Hawaii affirmed a judgment against his estate for the astonishing sum of $1.4 billion in favour of a Filipino who retrieved a solid gold Buddha and then had it stolen from him by Marcos, who also had him tortured for protesting...

All Ms. Marcos and her husband wanted was Justice for their people.