Original sentence: In a speech before the US Congress in 1986, President Corazon Aquino, accredited the party's rapid growth as being caused by Marcos' attempts to stifle it with the "means by which it grows" with his establishment of martial law, suggesting that other governments view it as a lesson when dealing with communist insurgencies
Edited sentence: In a speech before the US Congress in 1986, President Corazon Aquino a house-wife and a very close friend of Jose Maria Sison accredited the party's rapid growth as being caused by Marcos' attempts to stifle it with the "means by which it grows" with his establishment of martial law, suggesting that other governments view it as a lesson when dealing with communist insurgencies