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Article: IN A RURAL HAMLET, FARMERS VOICE DISTRUST OF MANILA GOVERNMENT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 3, 1987
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SAMAL, Philippines - Government euphoria over an apparent
outpouring of national support for the Philippines' new
constitution was not reflected yesterday in this rural leftist
stronghold.
In the dusty courtyard outside one elementary school where
votes were cast in San Juan barrio, at the edge of the town of
Samal, 35 miles west of Manila, tenant farmers and fishermen talked
openly of their support for communist rebels and their distrust of
the government in Manila.
"I am voting 'no' because the constitution does not meet the
demands of the peasant," said Delfin Lazarte, a tenant rice farmer
arriving to vote.
Lazarte said he farms 1.5 hectares of rice land for a landlord
who ...