Jaime Tadeo
{{Short description|Filipino activist (1938–2023)}}
{{Use Philippine English|date=March 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Philippine name|San Luis|Tadeo}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| name = Jaime Tadeo
| image = Jaime Tadeo from the Constitutional Commission (1986).jpg
| caption = Tadeo from the Official Directory of the Constitutional Commission, {{circa|1986}}
| title = Member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission
| president = Corazon Aquino
| term_start = June 2, 1986
| term_end = October 15, 1986
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1938|3|28|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Bocaue, Bulacan, Commonwealth of the Philippines
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|3|26|1938|3|28}}
| party =
| spouse = Cresencia Bernardino
| children = 5
| parents =
| occupation = Activist
| profession = Farmer
| nickname = Ka Jimmy
}}
Jaime "Ka Jimmy" San Luis Tadeo (March 28, 1938 – March 26, 2023) was a Filipino peasant and organic farming activist.{{Cite web|last=Mayuga|first=Jonathan L.|date=October 8, 2015|title=When men wore 'bakya': 'Ka' Jimmy recalls how life was as a farmer in Bulacan when he was 25 {{!}} Jonathan L. Mayuga|url=https://businessmirror.com.ph/2015/10/08/when-men-wore-bakya-ka-jimmy-recalls-how-life-was-as-a-farmer-in-bulacan-when-he-was-25/|access-date=April 1, 2021|website=BusinessMirror|language=en-US}}"Jaime Tadeo." EDSA Stories. Focus on the Global South-Philippines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0CFAiP1zV8{{Cite web|last=Mundo|first=Fernando del|date=December 24, 2012|title=He wanted land for farmers but got Muntinlupa instead|url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/329489/he-wanted-land-for-farmers-but-got-muntinlupa-instead|access-date=April 1, 2021|website=INQUIRER.net|language=en}}
Biography
Tadeo was born in Bocaue, Bulacan.{{cite book |date=1986 |title=Official Directory of the Constitutional Commission 1986 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSQcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA113 |page=113 |access-date=August 25, 2022}} He obtained a bachelor's degree in Agriculture from the Araneta University in 1960 and worked for different government agencies from 1962 to 1981. Tadeo was formerly one of the leaders of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (the KMP, or Peasant Movement of the Philippines), formed amid the 1986 People Power Revolution in order to push for agrarian reform, until the peasant movement split into multiple groups in the 1990s.{{Cite book|last1=Bello|first1=Walden|title=The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines.|last2=De Guzman, M.|publisher=Zed Books|year=2006|chapter=Agrarian Reform: The Promise and the Reality}}{{Cite book|last=Fuller|first=Ken|title=The Lost Vision: The Philippine Left 1986-2010|publisher=University of the Philippines Press|year=2015}}{{Cite book|last=Putzel|first=James|title=A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines|publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press|year=1992|location=Quezon City}}{{Cite book|last=Magadia|first=J.|title=State-Society Dynamics: Policy Making in a Restored Democracy|publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press|year=2003|location=Quezon City|pages=43–92|chapter=Agrarian Reform and a Strong Civil Society}}{{Cite journal|date=July–December 1989|title=Agrarian Reform and the External Debt: Pressing Issues|url=https://pssc.org.ph/wp-content/pssc-ssi/1989/Volume%2017%20Numbers%203-4/Agrarian%20Reform%20and%20the%20External%20Debt_%20Pressing%20Issues.pdf|journal=Social Science Information|volume=17}}
Shortly after the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, Tadeo was appointed to be part of the 1986 Constitutional Commission where he was the sole peasant representative.
In January 1987, Tadeo figured prominently in the demonstrations which led to the Mendiola massacre, a violent dispersal of peasants, workers, and students by state security forces which left 13 dead.(Jan 27, 1987). Marines open fire on peasant union march as it crosses Mendiola Bridge killing 12 and wounding 106. GS28018721. Associated Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxZMjmf2KA According to Tadeo, most of the 13 were part of a "composite team" purposely put to protect him from gunfire.
In 1990, Tadeo was arrested and sentenced to a maximum of 18 years in prison at the National Penitentiary in Muntinlupa for committing estafa, which supporters claim was due to his outspoken criticism of Corazon Aquino's executive order on agrarian reform.{{Cite web|date=September 6, 2016|title=The framing of Jaime Tadeo|url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/framing-jaime-tadeo|access-date=April 1, 2021|website=Green Left|language=en}} Asked about his views on the president, he remarked that she "[was] running the country like her own hacienda," and retorted "I asked Cory Aquino for land for the peasants and she gave me 'Muntinlupa' (in Tagalog, 'tiny piece of land')." Tadeo's sentence was commuted after three years, being released on parole on August 6, 1993 after submitting his release application to the Department of Justice's Board of Pardons and Parole, with president Fidel V. Ramos stating that his release could benefit the national peace and reconciliation program under his administration.{{cite news|last=Lanuza|first=Angelo|title=Tadeo freed|work=Manila Standard|publisher=Kamahalan Publishing Corp.|date=August 7, 1993|page=3|quote=Tadeo[...] was originally sentenced to a maximum of 18 years for the crime estafa.}}
Scholar James Putzel took the title of his 1992 book, A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines on the history of land reform in the Philippines and the United States' role in it, from Tadeo's remark that the Philippines is a "foreign dominated economy," captive to American interests.
Tadeo led a small group of Bulakenyo and Central Luzon farmers as head of the organization Paragos-Pilipinas.{{Cite web|date=November 14, 2019|title=Geraldine Roman takes a snap with Jimmy Tadeo {{!}} Politiko Central Luzon|url=https://centralluzon.politics.com.ph/geraldine-roman-takes-a-snap-with-jimmy-tadeo/|access-date=April 1, 2021|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Purugganan|first=Joseph|date=November 26, 2019|title=Farmers demand government to repeal Rice Liberalization Law - Focus on the Global South|url=https://focusweb.org/farmers-demand-government-to-repeal-rice-liberalization-law/|access-date=April 1, 2021|language=en-US}} Tadeo supported the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill filed in Congress by Representative Rafael Mariano in 2018.{{Cite web |last=Bolledo |first=Jairo |date=March 26, 2023 |title=Jimmy Tadeo, peasant leader and 1987 Constitution framer, dies |url=https://www.rappler.com/nation/jaime-tadeo-death-obituary/ |access-date=March 27, 2023 |website=Rappler |language=en-US}}
Tadeo died on March 26, 2023, two days before his 85th birthday.{{Cite web |last=Subingsubing |first=Krixia |date=March 27, 2023 |title=Jaime Tadeo, agrarian reform advocate; 84 |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1748466/jaime-tadeo-agrarian-reform-advocate-84 |access-date=March 27, 2023 |website=Philippine Daily Inquirer |language=en}}
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