President Rodrigo Duterte: “Cory Aquino maybe popular, she is popular today. Why? For losing the husband in the hands of Mr. Marcos.” | DJesguerraINQ
“Cory Aquino maybe popular, she is popular today. Why? For losing the husband in the hands of Mr. Marcos,” Duterte said before agrarian reform beneficiaries in his hometown Davao City.The President claimed that during Cory’s presidency, she spared her family’s property Hacienda Luisita from being subjected to the government’s land reform program.
The late president has made agrarian and land reform as the centerpiece of her administration’s social legislative agenda. However, her family background and social class as a privileged daughter of a wealthy and landed clan became a lightning rod of criticisms against her land reform agenda.
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