Editing Baguio (section)

=== During the 1986 People Power Revolution ===
{{main| People Power Revolution}}
In the wake of the [[Snap Presidential elections of 1986]], antidictatorship organizers were based largely in the Azotea Building midway up Session Road, and in Cafe Amapola further up Session, on its intersection with Governor Pack Road. Because the United States' Armed Forces Radio and Television Network station at Camp John Hay was transmitting news from Manila, they learned early on that the [[People Power revolution|People Power Revolution]] had begun in Manila. Deciding that their locations were too unsafe, they encamped in the courtyard of the [[Baguio Cathedral]], which was located on higher ground.<ref name="PeoplePowerBaguioRappler">{{Cite news |title=EDSA '86 up north: The day Baguio turned yellow |language=en |work=Rappler |url=https://www.rappler.com/nation/baguio-people-power-edsa-revolution |access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> They were later joined by Lt. [[Benjamin Magalong]], of the [[Philippine Constabulary]] detachment in Buguias, Benguet,<ref name="PeoplePowerBaguioHerald">{{Cite news |title=Remembering the People's Power Revolution in Baguio |language=en-US |work=Baguio Herald Express |url=https://www.baguioheraldexpressonline.com/remembering-the-peoples-power-revolution-in-baguio-2c/ |access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> who had defected from the government, gone to the nearby Central Police Station in Baguio, and disarmed its personnel to prevent any untoward incidents while Baguio residents continued to gather at the cathedral to protest the [[Human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship|abuses of the Marcos administration]].<ref name="PeoplePowerBaguioHerald" /> The Baguio Cathedral, and Session Road adjacent to it, thus became the center of the [[People Power revolution]] in Baguio - paralleling similar protests in [[Cebu City|Cebu]], [[Davao City|Davao]], [[Bacolod]], [[Manila]], and other major Philippine cities, eventually leading to the ouster of President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] on February 25, 1986.<ref name="PeoplePowerBaguioRappler" />