FromOurArchives: Capitals across the world celebrated when Filipinos showed a peaceful uprising could challenge an unbending dictatorship and topple military rule. EDSA37 RememberEDSA
Here’s what the 1986 People Power looked like to the rest of the world, from reporting in others countries’ leading news sources.To mark the day Filipinos ushered a return to democracy, the New York Times bannered the headline “” News of developments in the Philippines were told in four stories printed on its frontpage, and several more in the paper.
Aquino delivered a 52-second address on television, where she told Filipinos in celebration, “a new life starts for our country tomorrow.” Similar to the US, the United Kingdom’s The Guardian also featured Filipinos’ People Power. On February 25, 1986, the paper reported on how to the very end, Marcos had tried to “defy all attempts to unseat him.”Japan’s NHK had also aired a segment on People Power and how the end of Marcos’ decades-long rule brought the promise of potential to the Philippines.
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