Thursday, July 1, 2010

Muse of Manila


She had ever become the most popular women in Filipina. She is the beautiful first lady with some important position; she also a wife of Filipina’s president. After her husband died, Imelda should face some legal claims from Filipina governance. The governance accuse that she was engage in a corruption case. However, it was unproved, because after 17 years, court decided that she is not committed errors.
Imelda Remedios Visiticion Trinidad Romualdez Marcos was born on July 2, 1929. Her father is vincente Orestes Romualdez and her mother is Remedios Trinidad. Many people said that Imelda’s beautiful face is the legacy from her mother. Because of her beautiful face, Imelda gets many titles. For instance, Rose of Tacloban, Miss Leyte, Muse of Manila and the others beauty titles.
On 1954, Imelda met a member of congress from Ilocos Norte, namely Ferdinand Edrakin Marcos. They got married soon after their first meeting. From their marriage, they get four children. They are Maria Imelda Imee Marcos, Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr. ,Irene Marcos, and Aimee Marcos. After her husband selected as Filipina’s president, thay all moved to Malacanang Palace.
After her husband shifted by the people power of Filipina, they moved to Honolulu. There was a rumour that sais when Imelda left Malacanag Palace, she left 3000 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coat, and 888 bags. The other sources said that there were only 1.060 pairs of shoes. On the contrary, when she was live in the exile, she felt that she was very poor.

She Was the Mrs. President; She Is Corazon Aquino


She is the Mrs. President of Filipina. She led Filipina after Ferdinand Marcos’ regime. As the wife of Benigno Servillano Aquino, she has known as a simple woman. She is Corazon Benigno Aquino. Before 1986, her name is not too popular in Filipina. She just took a role as a housewife and take care for her children. In fact, Corazon Aquino is a daughter of rich man in that country. She is a Latinist woman actually.
Corazon started to be known in the early of 1983. An accident brought her life to the different situation. It was on August 21, 1983; her husband died in the Manila’s airport after coming back from United States. Many people believed that Ferdinand Marcos engage in this accident. Because of this accident, she shifted for her husband as a senator.
Ferdinand Marcos was known as a dictator president. After her husband died, most of Filipina populaces support her. In 1986, appeared a term that said “vox populi vox dei”, the voice of populace is the voice of god. This became a strong power for the populace to shift Marcos a president. The populace believed that if all the populace allied together, they could bring a new world for Filipina. Then Corazon took an important role in this movement.
On February 1986, the populaces succeed to shift Marcos from the governance. Corazon Aquino appeared as a new president of Filipina. She brought so much surprised for Filipina; one of her policy was about The Land Reform. Corazon’s family knew as the rich landlord in Filipina. However, she never thought about her family only, it was a proof that she led not just a group of people but for all people.