Hacienda Luisita
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
There was the bloody Mendiola Massacre. There were the bitter strikes of the farmers staged in the Hacienda. There were the gross killings in Tarlac intimately connected with the same hacienda — inclusive of the murder of a good and kind Aglipayan bishop simply showing concern and extending assistance to the aggrieved farmers. One big piece of land owned by one big dynasty causative of one big long standing social problem in the country — this is the Hacienda Luisita.
“Supreme Court (SC) junks Luisita stock option deal.” — so read the headline of a national broadsheet dated Nov. 24, 2011. This was even followed by the news that no less than 14 Justices unanimously agreed to a “total distribution of land.”
This is the stark reversal of the maneuvering of a long previous government that supposedly had agrarian reform as the centerpiece of its avowed socio-economic program. But specifically in the case of Hacienda Luisita, instead of parting with the land in favor of the farmers, some kind of a stock distribution was ingeniously conceived and implemented..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111206com7.html
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tama, tama, at tama pa rin dito si archbishop cruz. paano nga naman ang mga namatay na magsasaka at iba pa sa masaker sa mendiola at masaker sa hacienda luisita? at paano ang bayaran sa lupa sa hacienda luisita?
"Question: With the decision of the SC, at what monetary cost to the farmers will the land be distributed to them? Would it be at the same cost price when the hacienda was purchased from Tabacalera — as precisely agreed upon in its sale? Answer: Who knows? Question: Where did the financing of the business hub of the hacienda really come from? Answer: Investigate. Question: Where did the financing of the piling of that tall and long barrier to protect the hacienda from lahar, really come from? Answere: Inquire."
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