  Fidel Ramos
"This is the challenge to
our leadership today: that we cast away the old politics that divides us
and work together instead for the common good and the national
welfare."
Fidel V. Ramos
was born in Lingayen, Pangasinan to Narciso Ramos and Angela Valdez. A
soldier by profession and a hero in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Ramos
rose to the military hierarchy being a distant cousin of President
Ferdinand Marcos. He was the Chief of the Philippine Constabulary during
Martial Law.
Ramos served the
military for 41 years but bolted away from Marcos in a 1986 coup
together with Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile and with the support
of Manila's Jaime Cardinal Sin. After the EDSA Revolution, President
Aquino designated him Secretary of National Defense where he
successfully crushed six coup attempts against the Aquino presidency. On
June 30, 1992 with the support of President Aquino, he assumed the
presidency. His presidency saw a period of political and economic
stability. It accomplished the peaceful solution of the MNLF war in
Mindanao and neutralized the CPP-NPA. There were no coup de etats, and
the country became Asia's newest economic tiger. Ramos is married to
Amelita Martinez and have five children - Angelina Jones, Josephine
Samartino, Carolina Sembrano, Christine Jalasco, and Gloria. |
  President Fidel Ramos Born: March 18, 1928
2nd President of the Fifth Republic of the Philippines
(Term: June 30, 1992 - June 30, 1998)
Vice President: Joseph Estrada |
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