EDSA REVOLUTION
February 25, to some its just another date in the month of February, but for those who have felt pain and anguished remember this as a day where people by the thousand parade to the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue commonly called EDSA, which was also known as Peoples Power or EDSA Revolution, where Filipino people gathered and protest the 20 year dictatorship of disposed president Ferdinand Marcos in February 25 1986. With just voices and prayer people toppled a dictatorial government which Ferdinand Marcos declared a Martial Law on September 21, 1972 which give him overall authority over the military and national treasury. With the power that he has gain, he then manipulated the country’s money and to use the military presence to stop any uprising or probable political rival.
With recent events such as the assassination of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, a Philippine senator and a leading oppositionist to the autocratic rule of Ferdinand Marcos, on August 21, 1983, and the snap election made probably with pressure by Washington on February 7, 1986, which was full of violence and corruption. With both NAMFREL and COMELEC each siding with different presidental candidates, Ferdinand Marcos and Ninoy Aquino’s widow Corazon Aquino.
With the controversy of the election, Ferdinand Marcos still became the President of the Philippines, which led to the Revolution on February 25 1986 led by Corazon Aquino, Minister of Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and the Vice Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Lt. Gen. (later president) Fidel Ramos.
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