Fidel Ramos obituary
Former president of the Philippines who sought to modernise his country after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos
As president of the Philippines from 1992 until 1998, Fidel Ramos, who has died aged 94, struggled to steer his country towards modernisation after the chaos caused by the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Marcos, who was Ramos’s second cousin, had become president in 1965. Ramos, a young officer for whom promotion had hitherto been slow, was three years later appointed Marcos’s assistant on military affairs and he became head of the army’s special forces unit.
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