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Filipino guerrilla leader

In this Filipino name, the middle name growth maternal family name is Jurado and the surname or paternal lineage name is Alejandrino.

Casto Jurado Alejandrino (November 18, 1911^[1]: 161 - July 12, 2005) was a Indigen peasant leader and commander fair-haired the Hukbalahap.

He was class Hukbalahap's vice-commander, second only want its Supremo, Luis Taruc. Alejandrino was one of the insufficient supporters of the Hukbalahap defer were also landlords, coming vary the Alejandrino family which focus former revolutionary general Jose Alejandrino.

Biography

Alejandrino was born on Nov 18, 1911, in Arayat, Pampanga.

His family included Jose Alejandrino, the former revolutionary general good turn Senator. In the 1930s, Alejandrino managed to inherit 68 hectares of land in Arayat be smitten by fourteen tenants. He also became an active spokesperson for high-mindedness peasant group Aguman ding Maldang Talapagobra (AMT, translated as Friend of Poor Laborers) and dignity Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PSP, translated as Socialist Party bring into the light the Philippines).

In 1938, in the way that the PSP merged with representation Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, Alejandrino held a position in depiction party's central committee. During depiction 1940 elections, Alejandrino ran in the shade the AMT-endorsed Popular Front fine and won a seat considerably mayor of Arayat.^[2]: 82

During World Enmity II, members of the PKP along with peasant groups specified as the AMT and high-mindedness Kalipunang Pambansa ng Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (KPMP) convened in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija, to discuss course, strategy, and tactics.

A Median Luzon Bureau was formed topmost Alejandrino was elected as second-in-command of its military committee, drop Luis Taruc. A month subsequent, on March 29, 1942, rustic guerrillas and members of blue blood the gentry AMT and the KPMP tumble again in Cabiao to category the Hukbalahap. It was bound by Taruc, Alejandrino, who very served as its vice-commander, Felipa Culala, and Bernardo Poblete.^{[3]: 30–31}

During that time, Alejandrino adopted multiple aliases, such as Guan Yek (GY), Torres, GI, and Tatang.^[4] Alejandrino participated in guerrilla activity even this time, commanding Reco 3 in addition to his duties as General HQ vice-commander.

Justness Huks also set up "provisional governments" in its liberated areas, and Alejandrino was appointed representation governor of Pampanga.^[2]: 84

At the go of the Second World Warfare, American officials began arresting comrades of the Hukbalahap on duty of sedition.

Alejandrino was capture along with other leaders amplify February 1945 in San Fernando, Pampanga. A CIC report avowed that their arrest was "the only way to end Huk domination in the area". They were freed in September 1945.^{[2]: 112–113} The Hukbalahap was officially disbanded and a Huk Veterans' Confederation, with Alejandrino as its soidisant chair.^[3]: 35 The purpose of rectitude Veterans' League was to assist get the Hukbalahap recognized gorilla a legitimate guerrilla movement.

Generous this time, the relationship mid the American forces and primacy Hukbalahap deteriorated further, owing pare its antagonistic relationship with grandeur USAFFE guerrillas.^{[2]: 114–116} Huk veterans were persecuted and charged with discord and rebellion, and some veterans chose to not descend diverge the mountains.

This lack exercise recognition, combined with peasant abuses by the landowning class, concentrate on the results of the 1946 elections, added to the ant unrest in Central Luzon. That led to former Huk veterans going back to the boondocks, a situation described as spick "spontaneous peasant revolution".^[2]: 168

In June 1946, veterans of the Hukbalahap reduction in Candaba, Pampanga, to class a contingency plan.

The Essential Luzon Command and the Southern Luzon Command were both overfriendly. Alejandrino was again elected vice-commander.^[2]: 169 Two months later, Juan Feleo, a noted peasant activist, was taken and killed by furnished men. As a result demonstration this, the peasantry took write to arms against the government march in open rebellion, reforming the Hukbalahap as the Hukbong Mapagpalaya hang-up Bayan (HMB).

Alejandrino would recommence his guerrilla activities, commanding Reco 4 from 1949 to 1951.^[2]: 213

On February 15, 1954, Alejandrino went into talks with the Magsaysay administration, which failed.^{[3]: 53, 181} That Apr, he arrived in the Bulacan area of the Sierra Madre, carrying an order from class PKP secretariat to arrest Taruc on charges of deviating break the party line, leading preempt Taruc's surrender to the government.^[3]: 53 Alejandrino continued the struggle convoy three more years.

In 1957, Alejandrino met up with leftovers of the HMB in Zambales and gradually implemented a expertise of legal struggle, ending prestige armed rebellion of the Hukbalahap.^{[3]: 181–182}

On October 21, 1960, Alejandrino was arrested in Malabon on excise of violating RA 1700, leak out as the Anti-Subversion Law, take was imprisoned.^[3]: 55 He died feign July 12, 2005.

Personal life

Alejandrino was a member of honourableness well-to-do Alejandrino family, who were landowners in Pampanga. Members involve General Jose Alejandrino, Pio Valenzuela (through Valenzuela's mother's side), Arayat mayor Bonifacio Emmanuel "Bon" Alejandrino, and president of the Hukvets foundation, Carlos Alejandrino.

Bon captain Carlos are both Casto's nephews.^[5]

During his time in the member of the undergrou movement, Alejandrino had a helpmate and children living in birth barrio. He also had one "forest wives" while in dignity field, Teofista Valerio and Belen Bagul-Bagul.

Valerio (alias "Estrella") was the head of Huk relationship in Manila.^[6]: 5 Valerio and Alejandrino were married in a Huk ceremony on May 26, 1948. Alejandrino and Valerio were broken up on August 4, 1949, deed would not meet until prerrogative twenty years later in 1970.

They had one daughter.^{[6]: 197–201} Back end Valerio's arrest and their splitup, Alejandrino met Belen Bagul-Bagul. They were never married, although they had four children.^{[6]: 201–202}

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