The former president of the Philippines has died. She was a friend of the United States and an enemy of Communism.
Ronald Reagan played an important role in her rise to power in 1986. The Heritage Foundation lists this as one of a hundred “conservative victories” during the Reagan years:
Reagan’s encouragement of a peaceful transfer of power from Ferdinand Marcos to a democratically elected, non-Communist government in Philippines contrasts dramatically with Carter’s failure to insist on legitimate succession procedure in Shah’s Iran and Somoza’s Nicaragua.