Another ‘Travesty’ as Congress Votes to Extend Life of Failed CARP

PUBLISHED ON JUNE 4, 2009 AT 9:07 AM
By MAO HERMITANIO and JANESS ANN J.ELLAO
Bulatlat

The landlord-dominated Congress, led by the relatives of President Arroyo, voted Wednesday night to add five more years to the implementation of a 20-year-old agrarian-reform program that has failed to uplift the lives of peasants and farmers in the Philippines. And critics say the new proposed law is even worse than the original.