By JONATHAN DE SANTOS
CHRISTIAN Losano, an 18-year-old Agta Dumagat, can cite several reasons why he is opposed to the freeport zone project in Aurora province, but he gets really emotional when he talks about how the venture is tearing their community apart.
The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone (APECO), the pet project of the Angaras, is robbing his people of their ancestral domain, he told reporters at a news conference at the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Quezon City on Monday.
“We are fighting for our fishing grounds, and for our forest, and for nature,” he said. “We hope APECO gets shut down because it is tearing us apart.”
