Remembering Ninoy 2026

Forty-three years ago, an exiled Ninoy Aquino was assassinated on the tarmac of the airport that now bears his name. His death was the spark that lit the powder keg of rage against the excesses of the Marcos regime, and led to the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ousted the Marcoses, and ushered in what was hoped to be a new age of democracy. Of course, forty-three years later, the hope has…