Why Is the World Bank Attacking Land Reform in the Philippines?

Why Is the World Bank Attacking Land Reform in the Philippines?

When the Peoples’ Power movement brought down Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, land reform was one of its most important demands.  But even after Corazon Aquino had been elected President in the midst of great hopes for change, land reform was still only won at the cost of bloody struggle.  Frustrated at waiting for Aquino to act, ten thousand farmers marched on the Malacañang Palace, and twelve were shot down on the Mendiola Bridge…