After its national meeting, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino now identifies itself without Laban, signaling a departure from its ties with the late Ninoy Aquino's party
THE Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon the short and more popular version is Huks was essentially a revolutionary movement of patrician intellectuals who did the theorizing and educating side, and commoners who made up the fighting force. The most prominent of these intellectuals were the Lavas of Bulacan province, armed with graduate degrees in the hard sciences from the best American universities yet highly steeped in Marxist dialectical materialism. Casto Alejandrino, from the Arayat, Pampanga-based clan that sent its young to Madrid to study with Jose Rizal and the La Solidaridad group at universities there, was both a highly-trained guerilla tactician and a Marxist intellectual.
During in the Cold War, a CIA operative in the Philippines used the local folklore myth of the blood-sucking aswang to try and scare off communist rebels. Did it work?
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