The final ceremonies for the late former President Corazon Aquino was a fitting tribute to arguably the country’s most adored public figure in modern Philippine history. Even in death, former President Corazon Aquino united the nation as an adoring and grateful people laid her to rest on Wednesday evening.
The leader of the 1986 People Power uprising that restored democracy in the country was buried in a simple tomb beside that of her husband’s, Ninoy Aquino.