EDSA and the Aquinos

Thirty years after the triumph of “people power” at EDSA on February 25, 1986, we have had two dynastic presidents from Benigno Aquino Jr’s family— Ninoy Aquino’s widow Corazon Cojuangco Aquino from 1986 to 1992, and her son B. S. Aquino 3rd from 2010 to date. They have kept alive the fierce diatribe against Ferdinand Marcos, but have not advanced the nation’s agenda into the future one bit. The “restoration of our democracy” by our “bloodless revolution” failed to bring in any revolutionary change.

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