Word: luisita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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