Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator

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Reunion Dinner of the Movement for a Free Philippines, Manila Mandarin Hotel, June 19, 1986. From left: Bonifacio Gillego, Mrs. Teresita Taca, Raul Manglapus, President Corazon Aquino, Arturo Taca, Mrs. Pacita Manglapus, Gaston Ortigas. Manoling Maravilla, chairperson of the MFP’s New York City chapter, demonstrates September 16, 1982, in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., during the state visit of President Marcos. Demonstration and rally in Washington, D.C., 1983. Conference sponsored by the Ninoy Aquino Movement, 1984, in Lincolnwood, Illinois. From left: Heherson Alvarez, Steve Psinakis, unidentified person, Mrs. Priscilla Psinakis, and U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. State visit of President Ferdinand Marcos to the United States in September 1982. From left: Marcos, President Ronald Reagan, Mrs. Imelda Marcos. Meetings held September 17, 1982, in Washington, D.C., to counter Marcos’s visit. Left: Benigno Aquino at the podium. Right: Raul Manglapus. Advertisement announcing the formation of the Movement for a Free Philippines, New York Times, September 27, 1973. Saundra Saperstein and Eugene L. Meyer, “Jubilation from Oxon Hill to Seattle: At Embassy and in Streets, Filipinos Hail ‘Kalayaan’—Freedom.” Washington Post, February 26, 1986.© The Washington Post. All rights reserved. Prominent Filipino political exiles escaped the Philippines by island-hopping the Sulu Archipelago (bottom), then sought refuge in Malaysia before making their way to the United States. ...