CHANGE has come to the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and it is more than symbolic. In his first week on the job, Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano, who comes from the peasantry, literally broke open the gates of his office.
For 18 years, the driveway gates of the DAR on Elliptical Road in Quezon City had been chained, locked and even welded and rusted shut to keep protesters at bay.
The gates have been closed during the Estrada administration and have been guarded heavily from 2010 under the Aquino administration.
When the gates opened on Monday, the workers of the DAR harmoniously shouted: “We are free!”
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