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unusual facts about Eduardo Cojuangco



Coconut production in the Philippines

In 1975 the PCA acquired a bank, renamed the United Coconut Planters Bank, to service the needs of coconut farmers, and the PCA director, Eduardo Cojuangco, a business associate of Marcos, became its president.


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Hacienda Luisita

At Bank of Commerce, where he and his brother Juan "Itoy" Cojuangco and nephews Ramon Cojuangco (later of PLDT; son of brother Antonio Cojuangco Sr) and Danding Cojuangco (eldest son of deceased brother Eduardo Cojuangco Sr) each owned equitable stakes, the last three factions planned a coup d’ etat by toppling him from the presidency of the said bank.