In these often depressing and confusing times, it is comforting and inspiring to be able to look back to the presidency of Cory Aquino and renew our belief that the Filipinos are capable of recognizing and electing great leaders. And that a return of democracy is at all possible.
On Feb. 22-25, the nation again commemorates those four days – 36 years ago – when Filipinos rose up in determined yet peaceful protest, converged on Edsa and with their own bodies stopped the military tanks and troops dispatched to disperse them. That popular uprising, replicated in other parts of the country, ended the 14-year Marcos dictatorship.