President Corazon Aquino family is one of the most prominent family in the Philippines, the country’s largest sugar cane plantations, this piece of land ownership disputes in the 50 years from not cease. 24, the Supreme Court of the Philippines will this plantation of nearly 5000 hectares of land distributed to more than 6,000 tenant farmers, this ruling marks the extreme poverty of the Philippines tenant made a historic victory. Judgment the same day thousands of tenant farmers gathered at the door of the Supreme Court, hold high the banners to celebrate the belated fair. But on the other hand, President Aquino said court the consider giving landowners just compensation, but this statement, the opposition violently attacked the performance as Whether right or wrong, but no doubt about the commitment to land reform, is the touchstone of the Aquino governing philosophy, because his election manifesto to save 30 million extreme poverty Philippines tenant.
tenant weekly income of only U.S. $ 0.22
this symbol of the economic lifeline of President Corazon Aquino family estate named Louis West Tower estate, which covers an area of nearly 6400 hectares. In 1957, the the Aquino mother family purchased this land,wow gold, and employs thousands of tenant farmers, the main planting sugar cane, many people have been cultivated in this 50 years, and still nothing, because the farmers and sharecroppers agreement provisions, which piece of land is only allowed to grow sugar cane, even idle land to the cultivation of cereals and vegetables.
Foluolida is a tenant of the farm, she said, seven years ago, due to the popularity of mechanization, the tenant a week can only come to work day, wages are only 9.5 pesos ($ 0.22). This means that the family did have enough to eat. Like she was so hungry tenant there are many, Ha Lili is also one of them,wow gold, she said it is this poverty, so they had to strike to fight for their right to survive, she said, just for our children. Farm tenant in 2004 launched a general strike and clashed with police and military police, leaving seven dead and hundreds injured. This bloody conflict also contributed to the Aquino family had to make reforms, and acquiescence of the tenant farmers to grow some vegetables and rice crops.
tenant farming after 10 years may be land ownership
In addition to the desire to improve the life tenant requires the strong desire of the land, on the other hand from the Aquino family has been slow to honor the original Buy manor agreement. Had the Aquino family, clear to the tenant farming for 10 years after the land to tenant farmers. But decades later, the Thousands of tenant farmers still own land, can only work for the Aquino family, and for so many years tenant who always struggle with, but no results. Tenant Fernandez said his family grow sugar cane to the Aquino family for more than 50 years, is long overdue access to land.
like Fernandez, like many Filipinos tenant, his life in the pursuit of land ownership, because they think it is as a sharecropper most basic rights. The Philippines is an agricultural country, but most of the country’s land has been mastered in the hands of large plantation owners and prominent family.
today Philippines has entered a democratic society, the tenant more than half of the total population, a growing number of politicians began to pay attention to the tenant of this big ticket bunker, successive governments have been trying to push forward the process of land tenant ownership However, because of the obstruction of vested interests, the slow progress of work.
Aquino family back on its word?
in 1986, the mother of Louis West Tower Manor owner Aquino Kela Song in the presidential campaign said publicly that will promote land reform. When asked whether the family business will be included in the land reform process, she did not hesitate to say, Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, the purpose of the large manor of the division of land into small pieces, so the tenant can land to the tiller. The land reform program is expected to be completed in 10 years, a large manor in the hands of more than 10 million hectares of land to 65% of the landless tenant.
, however unintended, this 10-year plan repeatedly delayed until 2009 to complete all the goals. Aquino family, Louis West Tower Manor land ownership has never been assigned.
Aquino III became the first President of the Philippines in 2010, he inherited his mother’s land reform ambitions, vowed to continue to promote land reform program and to bring their own Louis West Tower Manor surgery.
However, when the judgment of the Supreme Court subdivision so that the introduction of, but he backed out. He claimed that the tenant has the right to own land, but should provide some compensation for land owners, this part of the compensation will be used by landowners to other investment.
In fact, as early as before the court hearing, the Aquino family has been to retain ownership of land When the Supreme Court to hear the demands of the tenant who, Louis West Tower Manor has the government put forward an alternative land reform program – the equity distribution plan. Before the allocation of land to tenant farmers, this program is intended to allow the manor by transferring part of the proceeds of equity allocation, the tenant can get the shares of the estate, while continuing to be paid manor farming. But the Court concluded that the scheme allegedly unconstitutional and therefore is not adopted, the results eventually led to a court order Aquino family subdivision to the tenant.
owed to the Government and the tenant billions of ‘blood’ The mainstream media have said that this was the President to maintain family interests, to reduce the rhetoric of family loss.
opposition criticism of the Aquino is more sharp and direct. Members Mary Arnold publicly accused Aquino, history. lashed out at the Aquino family farm owed by the government and tenant farmers billions of pesos in Randall referred to the blood in 2004 that the strike caused the seven workers were killed. He said that Louis West Tower estate must be
On the other hand, some experts think that Aquino is the legal basis for land owners should be given, because his mother when the president of the implementation of the just compensation. Compensation to be paid by the Government should first, then the tenant’s access to land by the labor income to the government cost-sharing.
but opposition members of the Randall does not agree, he thinks the land reform laws and regulations full of loopholes, so-called compensation means willfully asking price for land owners, the actual increase in the pressure of the sharecroppers’ equal has been exploitation In addition,wow gold, the tenant’s access to land due to land development costs than before, the interest in agricultural production, but reduced, and thus forced to sell the land, the transfer of those lands in a big circle back to the farmer in the hands, this is the implementation in 20 years has been an important cause of the remarkable results.
Members Mary Arnold also criticized the Aquino III, said he should own the land to tenant farmers in the 2010 election campaign, when he did not mention compensation, but now has gone back.
now, Aquino will face tough choices, side to celebrate the victory of the Philippines tenant side of the family members claimed that the appeal against the election promises is to safeguard the interests of the family, or reluctantly promises to retain the public trust, to keep the hope of re-election.
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