Jaime Tadeo News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stay updated with breaking news from Jaime tadeo. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Top News In Jaime Tadeo Today - Breaking & Trending Today

The bastardization of the party-list system

One of the most heralded and lauded provisions embodied in our 1987 Philippine Constitution was the inclusion of the party-list system in our fundamental law. Political scholars who had followed the deliberations of the 1986 Constitutional Commission that drafted the Constitution had touted it as the most significant act that returned… ....

Danilo Arao , Jaime Tadeo , Kontra Daya , Arturo Tolentino , Supreme Court , Constitutional Commission , Edsa People Power , Philippine Constitutional Law Principles , Senator Arturo Tolentino ,

The Mendiola Massacre: Decades on, Philippines Land Reform Remains Mired in Blood


“The interests of the peasants and landowning politicians can never be reconciled,” says one activist.
By
January 22, 2021
Protesters reenact the 1987 Mendiola Massacre during a rally on Jan. 22, 2021 in Manila, Philippines. Protesters also accused the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of responsibility for the recent killings of peasants.
Credit: AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Advertisement
Thirty-four years ago today, Rafael Mariano was marching towards the presidential palace in Manila. Joined by over 10,000 others protesting for peasant land rights, he remembers trudging past Manila Central Post Office before pushing on to Mendiola Street.
“We wanted genuine reforms with free land distribution for peasants, fully abolishing the unjust arrangements of centuries prior.  We looked for government officials to discuss our demands, but we found no one,” said Mariano, then a 30-year-old peasant activist. ....

Panay Island , Metro Manila , Philippines General , Negros Occidental , Hacienda Luisita , Jaime Tadeo , Fidel Ramos , Mao Hermitanio , Rafael Mariano , Cory Aquino , Benigno Aquino , Randy Echanis , Rodrigo Duterte , Kilusang Magbubukid , Ferdinand Marcos , Leonardo Lanzona , Commission On Human Rights , People Army , Manila Central Post Office , World Bank , Department Of Agrarian Reform , Presidential Agrarian Reform Council , Ateneo De Manila University , Agrarian Reform Program , Supreme Court , International Criminal Court ,