Corazon Aquino vs Josip Broz Tito

Corazon Aquino led the People Power Revolution, a series of nonviolent protests that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos. She was installed as the 11th President of the Philippines, the first female to hold the office.

Aquino abolished the 1973 Marcos constitution and restored democratic institutions. She appointed a commission to draft a new constitution, which was ratified in 1987, re-establishing a presidential system with checks and balances.

Aquino's government survived several coup attempts by military factions loyal to Marcos. The most serious was in August 1987, when rebel soldiers attacked the presidential palace. The government suppressed the rebellion with U.S. support.

Aquino signed the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), aiming to redistribute land to tenant farmers. Implementation was slow and faced opposition from landowners, limiting its impact.

Tito's Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform after he refused to submit to Stalin's control. This break made Yugoslavia the first communist state to defy the Soviet Union, leading to an independent path of 'self-managing socialism' and non-alignment.

Tito co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement with Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, and Nkrumah at the Belgrade Conference. The movement provided a third way for developing countries during the Cold War, avoiding alignment with either the US or Soviet blocs.

Tito enacted a new constitution that devolved significant powers to Yugoslavia's six republics and two autonomous provinces. While intended to manage ethnic tensions, it weakened the federal government and laid the groundwork for the country's later disintegration.

Tito died in Ljubljana after a long illness. His death removed the central unifying figure of Yugoslavia, leading to a rotating presidency system that proved ineffective. Ethnic tensions soon escalated, culminating in the Yugoslav Wars a decade later.