It’s past midnight in Zamboanga and Benigno (Noynoy) Aquino III slouches in his chair, a glass of Coke in one hand and a cigarette in another. He’s tired and bleary-eyed and wracked by a cold ...

Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III was born on Feb. 8, 1960, into one of the nation’s wealthiest landowning political families. He was trained as an economist and worked in his family’s ...