Monday, August 3, 2009

First female president of the Philippines dead at 76

MANILA (Aug. 2) -- Former Philippine president Corazon Aquino, who rose to an international symbol of “People Power”, has succumbed to cardio-respiratory arrest yesterday at 3:18 a.m. at the Makati Medical Center.  She was 76.

Aquino served as president from 1986 to 1992, the first women to hold that position.

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