One of the centerpiece of the Corazon Aquino presidency was the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), of course her being labelled as a freedom
fighter for toppling Ferdinand Marcos which led to being exiled by the latter
to Hawaii, United States of America.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte downplays the legacy of Corazon
Aquino for
her failure to subject under the CARP the family’s vast Hacienda
Luisita.
Congress passed the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law in 1988, or
two years after Mrs. Cory Aquino was
propelled to the presidency through the EDSA people power revolt of 1986.
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“She exempted her land. So you call her what, the one who freed,
emancipated? It’s an incongruity,” the President said.
Duterte pointed out that Cory should have proven her sincerity in
uplifting the plight of the landless by promptly including Hacienda Luisita - a
vast sugar estate in Tarlac, originally a 6,453-hectare sugar plantation, was
owned by the Cojuangco clan, to which the late president belonged.
Instead of actual land distribution, the management of Hacienda
Luisita opted for a stock distribution plan, which validity was put to question
by the beneficiaries before the
Supreme Court (SC). In 2011, the SC ruled that Hacienda Luisita should be
distributed among farmer-beneficiaries.
Ending the communist insurgency
President Duterte in his speech in Davao city, pointed out that
effective land reform is the best way to finally put an end to communist
insurgency.
“You only have to make them irrelevant,” he said, referring to the
communists. “The greatest promise that the communist can give is land reform. I
have been at it since I became president three years ago.”
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