By HOMER TEODORO
SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD Felix Nacpil Sr. jumped in joy when he heard the news about last week’s final ruling of the Supreme Court awarding the Hacienda Luisita sugar estate owned by the family of President Benigno Cojuangco Aquino III to their 6,296 farm workers.
By HOMER TEODORO
THERE’S a brewing tension between labor unions and 10 barangay chairmen of Hacienda Luisita because of their conflicting lists of farmer-beneficiaries considered to own and possess the 4,915.75-hectare sugar land estate of the Cojuangco family in Tarlac.
By HOMER TEODORO
TARLAC CITY—Six years after, the murder case of Hacienda Luisita labor leader Ricardo Ramos is expected to soon come to a close. The regional trial court here is scheduled to hand down on Nov. 16, 2011 its decision on the charge against Sgt. Roderick “Joshua” de la Cruz of the Army’s 7th Infantry Division.
By HOMER TEODORO
Central Luzon TV and VERA Files
HACIENDA LUISITA, Tarlac—Unlike other cases of extrajudicial killings, the slaying of labor leader Ricardo Ramos should have been an open-and-shut case. After all, the alleged killer is behind bars, and the case against him has been filed in court.
