Cory Aquino, Maria Ressa named among TIME's 'most influential women of the past century'
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MANILA, Philippines — TIME magazine recognized the late president Corazon Aquino and veteran journalist Maria Ressa among the “most influential women of the past century.”
“This includes women who occupied positions from which
The project, former TIME editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs said, “is an exercise at
Aquino and Ressa
TIME recalled the “mythic quality” to Aquino’s ascent from a “well-born and a devout Catholic” with seemingly no political ambitions to becoming an opposition leader and a president.
She
“That democracy has endured on the archipelago,” TIME wrote, but so did the “power structures” of an elite rule that helped propel her son and namesake of her husband, Benigno Aquino III, to “a widely admired term as President.”
“And his
TIME meanwhile noted Ressa’s career as a journalist and how she and three other women started online news site Rappler, which “turned into a global
Ressa, and staff of the Capital Gazette of Annapolis,
Ressa faces a string of legal suits since the start of the Duterte administration. She slammed the cases as persecution, but the Palace has adamantly denied their hand in the charges against her. — Kristine Joy
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