Who owns the Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT)? The sugar mill sits on 50 hectares inside Hacienda Luisita, a sugar plantation owned by the family of President Aquino for 53 years until November 2011 when the Supreme Court favored the government’s decision to distribute 4,925 hectares to 6,296 farm workers.
The government has failed in giving justice to victims of the violent dispersal of protesting farmers eight years ago at Hacienda Luisita, a sugar plantation in Tarlac owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III, a leftist umbrella group said Friday.
Close to 200 persons are seeking inclusion in the final roster of farmworkers who will receive land from the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate after the release last month of a preliminary master list of beneficiaries, according to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
Nearly 200 persons have submitted additional documents in order to be included on the final roster of farm workers who stand to receive land from the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate since the release last month of a preliminary master list of beneficiaries, according to the Department of Agrarian Reform.
Militant farmers on Friday named five people included in the preliminary list of Hacienda Luisita who they claimed were actually working in the horse stables of President Aquino’s relatives.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio Delos Reyes on Thursday challenged critics to name names and formally file their objections against the purported inclusion of horse stable hands and house helpers of President Aquino’s relatives in the preliminary list of Hacienda Luisita beneficiaries.
A militant farmers group has alleged that the land reform beneficiaries that the Hacienda Luisita management identified in a preliminary list released recently by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) included “horse stable and house helpers of President Aquino’s relatives”.
Eight years ago on November 6, farm workers at Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac City walked out from the sugar plantation, set up barricades, camped out and called for the revocation of the 1989 stock distribution option (SDO) as a way to implement agrarian reform. Ten days later, on Nov. 16, violence at the picket lines [...]
Martina Lazaro began working at Hacienda Luisita in 1968—11 years after it was acquired from its Spanish owners by the family of President Benigno Aquino III using government loans granted on condition that the sugar plantation would be distributed to farmworkers under President Ramon Magsaysay’s social justice program.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has started the process for the distribution of the Cojuangco-owned sugar estate Hacienda Luisita.
The government is poised to release the initial master list of farm workers who stand to receive land from Hacienda Luisita by the end of October, but the final list will likely be out in another two to three months’ time, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said.
The government is poised to release the initial master list of farm workers who stand to receive land from Hacienda Luisita by the end of October, but the final list will likely be out in another two to three months’ time, the Department of Agrarian Reform said.
Have I qualified as one of the beneficiaries of lands in Hacienda Luisita?” This question has been bugging Felix Nacpil Sr., 70, in the last six months and he looks forward to getting the answer at the end of October, the deadline set by Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes.
