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Benigno S. Aquino III, Ex-President of the Philippines, Is Dead at 61 - The New York Times

Benigno S. Aquino III, Ex-President of the Philippines, Is Dead at 61 - The New York Times

Benigno S. Aquino III, Ex-President of the Philippines, Is Dead at 61 - The New York Times
Jun 24, 2021 1 min, 8 secs

A scion of the country’s most prominent pro-democracy political family, he was celebrated early in his administration for stabilizing the country’s faltering economy.

Aquino III, a former president of the Philippines and scion of the country’s most prominent pro-democracy political family, died in Manila on Thursday.

Aquino served as president from 2010 to 2016, riding a wave of support after the death of his mother, Corazon Aquino, in 2009.

Aquino, a former president, and her husband, the slain Senator Benigno S.

Aquino Jr., were leaders of the 1986 People Power Revolution that ended the two-decade dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos.

Aquino, popularly known as Noynoy and PNoy, was celebrated early in his administration for battling corruption, stabilizing the country’s faltering economy and pushing through a reproductive rights law that made contraception more readily available to the poor — a move that had long been opposed by the Roman Catholic Church, in a devoutly Catholic country.

In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, which killed 6,000 Filipinos, many accused the president of being too slow to respond to the crisis.

Aquino should be held accountable for the officers’ deaths for allowing a suspended national police chief, accused of corruption, to oversee the operation.

Aquino was succeeded in 2016 by Rodrigo Duterte, a populist president whose policies have included a bloody war on drugs and whose authoritarianism has been compared to the Marcos regime.

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