Corazon Aquino's Life in Photos

Taking the Palace
Shortly after the Marcoses departed, the successful mutineers and Aquino supporters took the presidential palace, photographing themselves at Marcos' desk, poking guns at his portraits and, most startling, finding Imelda Marcos' enormous collection of shoes. The tacky but expensive furnishings of the First Couple disgusted Filipinos, as did the allegations that they had deposited billions of dollars in foreign countries.

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