Stories tagged
‘tarlac’

Bernabe ‘Kumander Dante’ Buscayno

‘Edsa was like a new dawn for me’

HAPPINESS AND contentment radiate from Bernabe Buscayno these days, but there was a time when he would wake up thinking this day would be his last. In the mountains where he fought a guerrilla war, death was just always an illness or a bullet away. As a political detainee years later, a resigned Buscayno came to believing his isolation cell would be the very last place he would see in his life.

Read more… | Posted Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

In Tarlac, CARP gives land to the wealthy

by Luz Rimban

BGY TINANG, CONCEPCION, Tarlac – When President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last week began her six-year term, her inaugural address had one glaring omission: it made no mention of land reform.

But it was an omission that was barely noticed. To many, and especially to the government, land reform is practically a done deal, a program nearly complete, and about which little more need be said.

Read more… | Posted Monday, July 5th, 2004