SPEECH OF

CORAZON AQUINO
CHRISTIAN KARL P. KARGANILLA
 IN 1986, THEN-PRESIDENT CORAZON
AQUINO SPOKE BEFORE A JOINT
SESSION OF THE UNITED STATES
CONGRESS.
 THE SPEECH LASTED FOR ABOUT 29
MINUTES WHICH WAS MET BY
CLAPS AND APPROVAL FROM
MEMBERS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS
 HER SPEECH WAS WRITTEN BY
TEDDY LOCSIN JR.

BACKGROUND
 BORN TEODORO LOCSIN JR ON
NOVEMBER 15, 1948.
 A FILIPINO LAWYER, DIPLOMAT AND
POLITCIAN.
 A FORMER MEMBER OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR TO THE
UNITED NATIONS.
 CURRENT SECRETARY OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS.

TEDDY LOCSIN JR.

 DEPICTING NINOY
 GRATITUDE TO UNITED STATES
 CRITICISM OF MARCOS
 NEW BEGINNING FOR PHILIPPINES
 APPEAL TO US FOR HELP

AQUINO’S SPEECH: OUTLINE

 SHE TOOK TIME TO PRAISE
HER HUSBAND FOR
BATTLING THE DICATORSHIP,
EVEN LEADING TO HIS
DEMISE. SAW IT AS THE
CATALYST FOR THE
“REVOLUTION”

DEPICTING NINOY
 AQUINO, IN HER SPEECH, THANKED
THE UNITED STATES FOR
PROVIDING HER FAMILY “HOME”
DURING FORMER SENATOR NINOY
AQUINO’S EXILE.

GRATITUDE TO UNITED STATES

 AQUINO TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY
TO CRITICIZE THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION FOR IGNTING
COMMUNIST INSURGENCY AND THE
26 BILLION DOLLAR DEBT OF THE
COUNTRY.

CRITICISM OF MARCOS
 AQUINO SUGHT TO RALLY HER
COUNTRYMEN TO USHER IN A NEW AGE OF
THE PHILIPPNES. MENTIONED FIGHTING
COMMUNIST INSURGENCY AND WILL ALSO
“HONOR” THE DEBT OF THE PHILIPPINES.
PROMISED TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY.

NEW BEGINNING FOR PHILIPPINES

 DUE TO THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY
THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, THE
PHILIPPINES FACED ECONOMIC
DETERIORATION. AQUINO APPEALED TO
US FOR HELP IN ANY WAY TO AID THE
RESTORATION OF THE COUNTRY.

APPEAL TO US FOR HELP

AFTERMATH
 ONE OF THE FIRST TASK THE AQUINO ADMINISTRATION HAD TO DO
WAS TO FIX THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY WHICH WAS MISMANAGED
THROUGHT THE FINAL YEARS OF THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION.
 DURING HER FIRST YEAR OF OFFICE THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY
BOOSTED GROWTH UP TO 4%. PRIVITIZATION WAS ALSO MADE TO HELP
SOLVING THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS BROUGHT BY THE MARCOS
ADMINISTRATION.
 HOWEVER, IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 1989 COUP D'ETAT,THE
ECONOMY STAGNATED.
 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 10% HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATION.

ECONOMY
 AS MENTIONED IN THE SPEECH, THE MARCOS ADMINISTRATION
ACCRUED A26 BILLION DOLLAR DEBT.
 AQUINO MENTIONED HONORING THE DEBT INSTEAD OF WRITING
IT OFF.
 THE ADMINISTRATION WAS ABLE TO PAY 4 BILLION DOLLARS OF
THE DEBT. HOWEVER, INCURRED A 9 BILLION DOLLAR DEBT.

PHILIPPINE DEBT
 IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE
AGRARIAN SECTOR, THE
ADMINISTRATION INTRODUCE THE
COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN
REFORM PROGRAM (CARP).
 NEVERTHELESS, AQUINO WAS
CRITICIZED FOR THE STAND OF
HACIENDA LUISITA.

AGRARIAN REFORM
 BEFORE CARP WAS IMPLEMENTED,
THERE WAS NO COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN ON LAND REFORM
 PEASANTS, STUDENTS AND
WORKERS STAGED A PROTEST AT
MENDIOLA, MANILA ON JANUARY
22, 1987. AS THE POLICE WERE
CONTROLLING THE SITUATION, 13
WERE KILLED.
 IN THE AFTERMATH, THEN JOSE
DIOKNO, THEN-PRESIDENT OF CHR,
RESIGNED.
 TO ADDRESS THE SITUATION,
CONGRESS PASSED REPUBLIC ACT
NO 6657
MENDIOLA MASSACRE
 THROUGHOUT HER
ADMINISTRATION, NUMEROUS
COUP ATTEMPTS HAPPENED TO
OUST HER FROM POSITION.
 1986 COUP: GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
PLOT OF NOVEMBER
 1987 COUP: JULY PLOT WAS
UNCOVERED AND QUASHED BY THE
GOVERNMENT
 THE AUGUST PLOT RESULTED TO 53
DEAD
 1989 COUP: LED BY MILITARY
MEMBERS WHO WERE MARCOS-
LOYALIST. THE COUP WAS QUASHED
WITH THE HELP OF US MILITARY.

INSURGENCY
 THE DECISION TO THRUST
CORAZON AQUINO TO PRESIDENCY
IS STILL A QUESTION TO THIS DAY.
 AQUINO PROMISED TO RESTORE
THE COUNTRY AFTER THE
GRUESOME DICTATORSHIP IN THE
PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION.
 WHILE THE ADMINISTRATION
DELIVERED CHANGE IN SMALL
DOSES, THE COUNTRY WAS STILL IN
SHAMBLES BY 1992.
 ULTIMATELY, AQUINO FAILED ON
THE PROMISE OF HER SPEECH IN
1986.
AQUINO ADMINISTRATION IN
RETROSPECT
 HOW WOULD YOU VIEW
THE AQUINO
ADMINISTRATION (1986-
1992)?

QUESTION