Post-Dictatorship [Red White And] Blues Brings Low-Intensity Warfare To The Philippines http://www.swans.com/library/art17/barker77.html

Removing a dictator from power does not necessarily lead to a decrease in oppression. The ousting of the longstanding US-backed dictator of the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos, in February 1986, provides a case in point. In the early 1980s, the US government recognized the threat to their national military interests in the region posed by an increasingly powerful people-power movement, and intervened to ensure that if Marcos had to go, he would be replaced by a reliable figurehead for Empire. The individual chosen by the US government's "democracy-promoting" community for this imperial assignment was Cory Aquino, an extremely pro-American member of the Filipino ruling class.