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Gloria Arroyo

June 2021

Benigno Aquino pictured in the Philippine Senate in 2017.

Benigno Aquino, son of Philippine democracy icons, dies at 61

A namesake of his father, whose 1983 assassination at Manila’s international airport sparked an uprising that toppled the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship three years later, Aquino was the Philippines’ 15th president.

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