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MANILA, Philippines — In September, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. signed an order freezing payments of amortization and loan interests of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries, a move that would let them use the money to develop their farms instead. This came as a welcome development for beneficiaries who need to pay the government for land awarded to them under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform program. The one-year moratorium on payments will cover around 654,000 ARBs but for Miriam Villanueva and her neighbors in Cavite, they cannot benefit from this move. Villanueva and her neighbors a…