President Cory Aquino Archives

The privilege of her smile

PeopleAsia's editor-in-chief JOANNE RAE RAMIREZ remembers former President Cory Aquino in this heartfelt tribute from one of PeopleAsia's special issues. President Cory Aquino with the author I remember the day she first called me by my first name. I had worked in her media bureau when she was a presidential…

“Hindi kami nag-iisa”

Upon PeopleAsia’s special request, then former President Corazon C. Aquino penned this article in commemoration of her husband Ninoy’s 20th death anniversary in 2003. By CORAZON C. AQUINO Cory's article on Ninoy in PeopleAsia I wrote this haiku in 1982, when Ninoy and I with our children (Ballsy, Pinky, Noynoy,…

Icon of Democracy: Remembering Cory

On this day in 1933, former President Cory Aquino was born in Paniqui, Tarlac. As her destiny would dictate, she would eventually grow up to not only become the Philippines' first female president, but most notably an icon and restorer of democracy during one of the country's darkest times. Revisit some of…