Author: 2000 Miles Computer House

Vast irrigation projects, as well as enhancement of the Ambuklao Power plant and other similar ones, went along way towards bringing to reality the rural improvement program advocated by President Magsaysay.
The Presidential Assistant for Community Development (PACD) was also established to ensure rural development. The PACD was created for increased productivity, building of feeder roads and improvement of government services in the barrios in the field of health and education.
Community roads and irrigation projects were expanded.
Loans were extended to farmers through the Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing Administration (ACCFA).
Marketing associations, known as Farmers Cooperative and Marketing Associations (FACOMAs) were organized throughout the country.

President Ramon Magsaysay at the Presidential Study, Malacañang Palace.

Corruption among cabinet members and the endless attempts to bribe the president were the most common issues of that time where corruptions was very rampant among government officials and President Magsaysay was among the very few who resisted and had zero tolerance against corruption.
The president who had zero tolerance for corruption even simple signs of not having a clean government he would put a stop on to it especially with his relatives. Like when his brother planned to start a law firm, the president refused for it will draw shady dealings for the firm will be run by the president’s brother.

When was Ramon Magsaysay President of the Philippines?
Of which province was Ramon Magsaysay military governor?
Which movement did Ramon Magsaysay successfully defeat?
What was Ramon Magsaysay’s position under Elpidio Quirino?
What caused Ramon Magsaysay’s death?

Answer: 1. 1953-1957 , 2. Zambales, 3. Hukbalahap, 4. Defence Secretary, 5. Plane crash

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay#Family
http://bloomspresidents.wordpress.com/ramon-f-magsaysay-1953-1957/
http://lendy826.hubpages.com/hub/The-Magsaysay-Administration-in-the-Philippines

Prepared by:
Sheena Mae S. Cueto
Princess Mae Baldovi
Nestor Hermosa

“A leader should set an example of a big heart, an honest mind, sound instincts, the virtue of healthy impatience and an abiding love for the common man.”

- M. Magsaysay

Ramon Magsaysay was born in Iba, Zambales to Exequiel Magsaysay, a blacksmith, and Perfecta del Fierro, a schoolteacher. Of Visayan descent, he nonetheless was ethnically affiliated with the Ilocanos of Iba and considered himself as one of them. He went to high school at Zambales Academy (ZA).
In 1927 he enrolled at the University of the Philippines. He took up a pre-law course and later shifted to engineering, all the while working as a chauffeur to support himself. However, he did not finish his course due to illness. Eventually he studied commerce at Jose Rizal College, graduating in 1931.
He first met his future wife, Luz Banzon, at the office of Try Tran, when she was picking up the payment for a bus company that her father had sold to Try Tran. They married on June 10, 1933.
They had three children: Teresita Banzon-Magsaysay (b. 1934), Milagros "Mila" Banzon-Magsaysay (b. 1936) and Ramon "Jun" Banzon-Magsaysay, Jr. (b. 1938).

March 16, 1957 Magsaysay left Manila for Cebu City where he spoke at three educational institutions. That same night, at about 1 a.m., he boarded the presidential plane "Mt. Pinatubo", a C-47, heading back to Manila. In the early morning hours of March 17, his plane was reported missing. It was late in the afternoon that day that newspapers reported that the airplane had crashed on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu and that 26 of the 27 passengers and crew aboard were killed. Only newspaperman Néstor Mata survived.
An estimated 2 million people attended Magsaysay's burial on March 22, 1957.

August 1950, he offered President Elpidio Quirino a plan to fight the Communist guerillas, using his own experiences in guerrilla warfare during World War II.
He intensified the campaign against the Hukbalahap guerillas. This success was due in part to the unconventional methods he employed and developed alongside an American adviser, General Edward Lansdale.
In June 1952, Magsaysay made a goodwill tour to the United States and Mexico. He visited New York, Washington, D.C. (with a medical check-up at Walter Reed Hospital) and Mexico City where he spoke at the Annual Convention of Lions International.
He resigned his post as defense secretary on February 28, 1953, and became the presidential candidate of the Nacionalista Party, disputing the nomination with senator Camilo Osías at the Nacionalista national convention.

He made Malacañang literally a "house of the people", opening its gates to the public.
His administration was considered one of the cleanest and most corruption-free; his presidency was cited as the Philippines' Golden Years. Trade and industry flourished, the Philippine military was at its prime, and the Filipino people were given international recognition in sports, culture and foreign affairs. The Philippines ranked second in Asia's clean and well-governed countries.

Republic Act No. 1160 of 1954
LASEDECO was abolished and established the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration
Main goal was to resettle landless farmers, and aimed at the rebels who returned to provide them with lots for home and farming in Palawan and Mindanao
Republic Act No. 1199 (Agricultural Tenancy Act of 1954)
Created the court of Agrarian Relations
The leasehold system and share-tenancy were organized to oversee the relationship between tenants and landowners
Republic Act No. 1400 (Land Reform Act of 1955)
Land Tenure Administration (LTA) were in charge of the possessing and distributing tenanted rice and corn lands (200 hectares for individuals and 600 hectares for corporations)
Republic Act No. 821 (Creation of Agricultural Credit Cooperative Financing Administration)
Small farmers and tenants low interests of between six to eight percent with their loans
Reparation Agreement
An agreement between Japan and the Philippines to pay the latter five hundred fifty million U.S. dollars ($550,000) as payment for the war damages of World War II.
Bell Trade Act of 1946 into the Laurel-Langley Agreement
It eradicated the authority of the United States to have control over the exchange rate of the Philippines peso, parity privileges reciprocal, extended the sugar quota. This agreement retained the economic subservience between the U.S. and the Philippines.
Agricultural Commodities Agreement with the U.S. (1957)
perpetuating the colonial pattern of the nation’s economy
Anti-subversion Law
Law that limited the citizen’s democratic rights of assembly, free speech, and belief.