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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 13. June 15 1981

Government Land Reform a Washout

Government Land Reform a Washout

It is not that there is insufficient land for the population to live off. In actual fact, despite the government's supposed attempts at land reform, there are still many landlords (most of them absentee, many American) with vast holdings. The government, far from alleviating the peasants' situation, adds to it by driving the peasants off their land in order to implement the projects of the foreign investors (mostly American) — the props of the Philippines economy. Even 20 years ago there were many more peasants who had a little land, but what has not been swallowed up by the transnational corporations, has been taken as payment of debts. This process has produced the current statistic of 75% with no land.