Word: luisita
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...reason is that, as a landowner herself, Aquino holds title to nearly 1000 hectares of land at her family's estate, the Hacienda Luisita. She is more than a simple housewife. She is also an heiress of the powerful Cojuangco clan, and as such faces pressure from within her own family to avoid a land reform program that would destroy its livelihood. Indeed, the pressure led her to reject a trial land reform project at the Hacienda Luisita...
Last February the government announced a multibillion-dollar five-year plan to redistribute the nation's 22 million cultivated acres. (President Aquino's family plantation, the 14,000-acre Hacienda Luisita, would be included.) But it is almost certain that the new Philippine congress, to be elected May 11, will water down the plan. Even then, the program will remain heavily dependent on foreign economic assistance...
...Many Huks, Many Huks." Lieut. Colonel Jesus Vargas, commander of the 5th battalion, is addressing a very important meeting, His hearers are some 400 field and factory workers of the Hacienda Luisita near San Miguel, a huge sugar estate which is owned by a Spanish combine called "Tabacalera" and is managed by a Spaniard, one Miguel Franco. The Hacienda has its own private police and detachment of constabulary, and many people from outlying barrios have moved within its boundaries. It is also famous as one of the first estates where a rural union was organized before the war, and nowadays...
...best Latin films to date. Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over Yankee greed...
...Next I made sure of getting hold of a Republican in the chauffeur of the automobile that was hurrying us back from Cintra. I had Luisita ask him point-blank how he liked the Republic. 'Not at all,' he replied, in Portuguese, 'the Republic is no good. Better...
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