Bernabe Buscayno

Bernabe Buscayno was one of eight children born to impoverished tenant farmers under a local landlord named Jose Ramos in Sitio Mangga, Talimundoc, Capas, Tarlac.

Ramos, the landlord, became the patron to the Buscayno family and "when Bernabe was old enough to begin his schooling, he and his brother Jose were sent to the landowner’s house in Quezon City."

Eventually dissatisfied with the latter,[5] Kumander Dante recruited some fighters and joined forces with Jose Maria Sison, who founded the Communist Party of the Philippines on December 26, 1968.

2 found him along with his two co-accused, Ninoy Aquino and Lt. Victor Corpus, guilty of subversion, murder, and illegal possession of firearms, and sentenced them to death by firing squad.

[10] After the 1986 EDSA Revolution, almost ten years after Buscayno's arrest, President Corazon Aquino ordered the release of hundreds of political detainees.

However, Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, severely ruining vast tracts of land in Luzon including Tarlac, and contributing to the demise of the cooperative in 1994.