MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Democracy icon Corazon Aquino, who helped lead a 1986 "people power" revolt, is being remembered across the Philippines a year after her death from cancer.
Her son, President Benigno Aquino III, called on Filipinos to continue her struggle for democracy by helping him confront poverty and pervasive corruption.
Aquino's death spurred a massive outpouring of national grief that prompted her only son to run for the presidency, which he won by a landslide.
Throngs of people offered tributes today at her white tomb guarded by soldiers. Masses were held across the predominantly Roman Catholic nation.
Fondly called "Tita (Auntie) Cory," Corazon Aquino is remembered as the bespectacled, smiling woman in her trademark yellow dress who helped lead a 1986 nonviolent revolt that ousted Ferdinand Marcos and swept her to power.
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