THE SPEECH OF PRESIDENT CORAZON

AQUINO BEFORE THE U.S. CONGRESS

SEPT. 18 1986
 WHO IS MARIA CORAZON COJUANCO AQUINO

• Full name: Maria Corazon Cojuanco Aquino as known

as “Cory Aquino”
• Born : January 25 1933 Tarlac province
• Died: August 1, 2009 at the age of 76
• 11th President of the Philippines
• First female President of the Philippines (Feb 25 ,
1986- June 30 1992)
• Graduated from the college of mount St. Vincent in
new York 1954 with a bachelor’s degree both French
and mathematics.
• Was named timed magazine’s woman of the year in
1986
CONTENT ANALYSIS

• She reiterated her grief when she left America to bury her husband 3
years before her presidency. She said that she had returned as the
president of free people she detailed about her husband’s struggles,
how it affected their family, and its impact on the nation .
• She also elaborated how painful it was for her and her children to
permanently lose the foundation of their home.
• However, Ninoy Aquino’s death was the Philippines resurrection and
the courage and faith by which alone its people could be free again.
CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

• The speech of Corazon Aquino was influence by the situation of

the country after the Marcos administration . The country was left
in an oppressed situation for over more than one decade. This
cause the Filipino citizens to be left and burdened with the debt
committed by Marcos during hid regime, which they did not
receive any benefits from.

• When former President Corazon Aquino spoke before the joint

session of the united states congress in September of 1986,
the dust was only beginning to settle. It was her first visit to
the America since the dictator Ferdinand Marcos had been
deposed in February of the same year, and the Philippines
was reckoning with everything his administration had inflicted.
That included 26 billion dollar in total foreign debt, and a
communist insurgency that grew, through out the Marcos era,
from 500 armed guerillas to 16,000. we were just at the start
of a long road to recovery.
How authoritative is the account/source?

• The said speech was come from former President Corazon

Aquino.
• Maria Corazon “ Cory ” Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino was a
Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the
Philippines, becoming the first woman to that office.
• It had the authority because she was the president of the
country that time. Her presidential term lasted in six years,
starting from February 25, 1986 until June 30,1992.
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCUMENT
This document allows the Filipino people to know and not forget
the harsh reality during the dictatorship of Marcos . Lastly since
Corazon Aquino was the first female president of the country, her
speech had a strong impact not just in the country but also on the
world's perception of women in power.
EXTERNAL CRITICISM

Time delivered: September 18, 1986 months after the EDSA

(February 25 1986) 3 years after the assassination of senator
Benigno Aquino (1983)
INTERNAL CRITICISM

• The author's main arguments focused on the constitutional and

economic recovery of the country after the dictatorship of Marcos.
Corazon Aquino wanted to seek financial assistance from the
Americans to help the country recover. More over the Corazon speech
was to officially declare and mark the freedom of the Filipino people
and to express how the Filipino citizens united to take back the
democracy that was taken away from them during the Marcos’ era .
• The speech centers on the miserable experiences of the Aquino family,
how the family mourns about their loss and how the government
treated their family. She did not state the positive contributions of the
Marcos’ administration and only focused on the negative of his term.
SOURCES
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ptember-18-1986/?
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PREPARED BY:
LEGAZPI GROUP

• GIGI B LUMANGAYA
• JESSA MANZANO ATUTUBO
• JEYDAN ABIÑO
• JHOMAR DIJITO NAZ
• JONATHAN ARGOTE PERDIZ
• JOSHUA ARAO
• MARICRIS LASALA