Archive of Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson

On the 93rd IB’s hallucinations over the revolutionary movement in Leyte
February 23, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

Lt. Col. Roberto Beatisula of the 93rd Infantry Battalion makes feverish speculations on the revolutionary movement in Leyte. We bring to light the following facts: 1. The New People’s Army is bound for victory while the Armed Forces of the Philippines is on a losing course as an oppressive instrument of the reactionary ruling system. […]

AFP suffered casualties, NPA unharmed in Jan. 11 ambush by the Arnulfo Ortiz Command in Samar
January 19, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

  The Efren Martires Command of the New People’s Army-Eastern Visayas belies the claims of the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army that the NPA suffered heavy casualties in a battle last January 11 at past 4 p.m. in Barangay Bay-ang, San Jorge, Samar. It was in fact the Armed Forces of the Philippines […]

NPA to government contractuals: You are welcome in the people's army
January 17, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

  “To the contractual government workers retrenched due to bickering within the ruling system, you are more than welcome in the people’s army,”said Ka Karlos Manuel, spokesperson of the Eastern Visayas Regional Command of the communist-led New People’s Army. Almost 4,000 contractual workers from the regional office 8 of the public works department alone have […]

Response of NPA-Eastern Visayas to 78th IB commanding officer: Local peace talks a narrow-minded, divide-and-rule tactic of a parochial GRP President
January 14, 2019 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The NDFP-GRP peace talks cannot be diminished into localized peace talks. The roots of the armed conflict are national issues. In fact, the very soul of the substantive agenda of the GRP-NDFP talks are the socio-economic reforms tackling genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization, which aim to end the country’s chronic economic crisis and backwardness. […]

No civilians hurt in Catarman raid – NPA
December 25, 2018 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

  The Efren Martires Command (EMC) of the New People’s Army in Eastern Visayas congratulates anew the Rodante Urtal Command (RUC) in Northern Samar for their successful ambush in Catarman last December 18 at around noon. Based on the latest update from the RUC, there were no civilians hurt in the tactical offensive. Instead, eight […]

NPA commends Catarman tactical offensive and apologizes for civilian casualties
December 22, 2018 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The Efren Martires Command (EMC) of the New People’s Army in Eastern Visayas commends the Rodante Urtal Command in Northern Samar for their successful tactical offensive in Catarman last December 19. This tactical offensive is in response to the call of the Party to intensify offensives and defend the people against the US-Duterte regime’s all-out […]

NPA denies “extortion” in Samar, hits military’s scheme to monopolize infrastructure projects at the expense of civilian contractors
December 09, 2018 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The Efren Martires Command of the New People’s Army (EMC-NPA) in Eastern Visayas today denied allegations it is extorting from key infrastructure projects in Samar, as claimed by the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP). “The 8th ID and OPAPP are making […]

NPA strikes back with tactical offensives against intensifying militarization
December 04, 2018 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The New People’s Army in Eastern Visayas has carried out four successful tactical offensives in the past weeks. According to the NPA’s Efren Martires Command, the said offensives show that people’s war is the best answer to the US-Duterte regime’s intensifying militarization and creeping dictatorship. Last Nov. 9, Red fighters of the Arnulfo Ortiz Command […]

Samar town mayor’s death is vindication for his rape and murder victims – NPA-EV
October 15, 2018 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

Ka Karlos Manuel Spokesperson, NPA-Efren Martires Command New People’s Army-Eastern Visayas Region The New People’s Army in Eastern Visayas region (Efren Martires Command) claims victory of revolutionary justice over the death of Mr. Ananias Rebato, due to massive cardiac arrest on October 13, Saturday. The former municipal mayor of San Jose de Buan succumbed to […]

WORSE THAN "TOKHANG”: NPA-EV slams Duterte for threatening mass arrest and mass murder in “counterinsurgency”
October 03, 2018 | New People's Army | Eastern Visayas Regional Operational Command (Efren Martires Command) | Karlos Manuel | Spokesperson |

The Efren Martires Command of the New People’s Army in Eastern Visayas today condemned GRP President Rodrigo Duterte for telling the military to carry out arbitrary arrests as well as to carry out extrajudicial killings against NPA members in his talk to the 803rd Infantry Brigade of the Philippine Army this October 2 in Catarman, […]