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One sugar plantation–owned by the family of ex-President Aquino–illustrates the contentious path of land reform in the Philippines
by Norimitsu Onishi
HACIENDA LUISITA, the Philippines — Like his father before him, Buenaventura Calaquian worked the sugar cane fields at Hacienda Luisita, a plantation owned by the family of former President Corazon C. Aquino. In the long-running, sometimes bloody battle over control of the land here, Mr. Calaquian, 58, has come out better than most.