Ninoy Aquino speeches now available on website
The Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation (NCAF) launches a website allowing online users to access the late senator’s speeches. (Screengrab from ninoyspeeches.ph)
MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos may now access the speeches of late senator Benigno “Ninoy” Simeon Aquino Jr. via a website launched by the Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation (NCAF).
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The NCAF said that 19 of the late senator’s speeches have been made public to celebrate his “life and legacy,” the foundation said in a Facebook post on Monday.
The release of Ninoy’s speeches was part of his 91st birth anniversary, the NCAF said.
Among the speeches available on the website are:
- A Carrot and a Stick for Mr. Marcos;
- A Garrison State in the Make;
- A Pantheon for Imelda;
- Black Saturday, Plaza Miranda; and
- Jabidah! Special Forces of Evil
Ninoy is the father of late president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and was a well-known critic of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s father, the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.
He was assassinated at the tarmac of the then Manila International Airport on August 21, 1983, upon his return from self-exile in the United States.
