Philippines will never find peace without land reform

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 28, 1987| Author: Jonathan Power | Copyright information

The Philippines will not find peace until it persuades the communist New People's Army to lay down its arms. This it will never do until the issue of land reform is firmly faced. So far, President Corazon Aquino's government has given only a tentative promise to redistribute 26 million acres.

What does she have to fear? Her three most successful neighbors, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, rosy capitalists though they be, only began their full-scale economic revolutions when they ini...

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