Benigno Aquino III, president of the Philippines who fought corruption and Chinese territorial claims, has died at the age of 61

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Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III was born on February 8, 1960 in Manila. His father, Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr., was imprisoned after Marcos declared martial law in 1972 in order to stay in power, but was allowed to seek treatment in the United States after suffering a heart attack in prison in 1980. After earning a degree in economics from the University of Ateneo de Manila In 1981, the younger Aquino joined his family in exile in the Boston area. There, he helped his parents as “the jack of all trades,” as he later told a Philippine television channel. “I was co-driver, handyman, gardener, electrician, plumber [and] However, it works.”

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