Reference: Christian Tuayon, Secretary General, BAYAN-Negros | Aquino’s populist line “tuwid na daan” has been revealed as a fallacy rather than a genuine call for change since this government implemented the U.S. Imperialist- imposed programs such as Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and counter insurgency (COIN) Oplan Bayanihan. Comfortable in its puppetry to the U.S., Aquino has not shown real interest in pursuing peace and justice or solving the root causes of the armed conflict despite the resumption of peace negotiation. In fact, the Aquino regime has paved the way to the further exploitation of our country’s natural and human resources thru the rehashed neo-liberal scheme that is bound to further spur massive unemployment, landlessness, economic dislocation, ejection, denial of social services and rapid price hike.