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Corazon Aquino  

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  • Corazon “Cory” Aquino was president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. The country's—and Asia's—first female head of state, she personified the 1986 “People Power” uprising that overthrew the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and restored elite democracy in the Philippines. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Aquino, Corazon (1933–)]

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