Jesus Gonzalo Barrera y Alimurung (December 18, 1896 – August 28, 1988) was a Filipino lawyer who served as the 67th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1959 to 1966.
During the Japanese occupation, he headed the Civil Liberties Union of the Philippines[citation needed], an underground movement of prominent former officials who furnished military information to guerillas to be passed on to Gen. Douglas Macarthur in Australia.
In the late 1940s Barrera was a key figure who attempted to convince President Manuel Roxas to negotiate a peace with the Huk guerillas who had rebelled because the United States and Philippine governments refused to recognize their wartime activities vs. the Japanese enemy.
He was the chair of the subcommittee negotiating the issue of jurisdiction during the 1956 U.S./Philippine talks trying to renegotiate the status of the U.S. military areas in the Philippines.
[4] He was one of 19 convention delegates who refused to sign the Marcos-influenced 1972 Constitution that granted Marcos autocratic powers.