{"id":262727,"date":"2020-07-24T03:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262727"},"modified":"2020-07-24T03:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T07:58:54","slug":"ndf-negotiating-panel-chair-fidel-agcaoili-75-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/24\/ndf-negotiating-panel-chair-fidel-agcaoili-75-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"NDF negotiating panel chair Fidel Agcaoili, 75, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_262728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262728\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0-02-06-f529567474d1bb0f1f222ec53d9221852c7cc090deb0273da4dde1b05177deca3e68c1f2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-262728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0-02-06-f529567474d1bb0f1f222ec53d9221852c7cc090deb0273da4dde1b05177deca3e68c1f2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0-02-06-f529567474d1bb0f1f222ec53d9221852c7cc090deb0273da4dde1b05177deca3e68c1f2.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0-02-06-f529567474d1bb0f1f222ec53d9221852c7cc090deb0273da4dde1b05177deca3e68c1f2-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: NDF negotiating panel chair Fidel Agcaoili (Photo from Fidel Agcaoili Facebook via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Fidel Agcaoili, the chairperson of the National Democratic Front\u2019s (NDF) peace negotiating panel, passed away on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Agcaoili, 75, succumbed to pulmonary arterial rapture, the NDF said in a statement posted on the Facebook account of the self-exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison.<\/p>\n<p>Agcaoili died on Thursday afternoon in Utrecht, The Netherlands where he was exiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the doctor, the cause of his death was pulmonary arterial rupture which caused massive internal bleeding. It was not Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) related,\u201d the NDF said.<\/p>\n<p>Agcaoili was supposed to turn 76 on August 8, the NDF said.<\/p>\n<p>The NDF added that Agcaoili\u2019s remains will be flown to the Philippines following the wishes of his family.<\/p>\n<p>Agcaoili took over as NDF chief peace negotiator in 2016 when Luis Jalandoni resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Peace talks between the government peace panel and the NDF, political arm of CPP, were terminated by Duterte in November 2017, following the series of attacks staged by the communists&#8217; armed wing, the New People&#8217;s Army, against the government troops and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2018, Duterte said Agcaoili and Jalandoni sought to return to the Philippines for the possible revival of peace negotiations with his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Agcaoili and Jalandoni had initially eyed to go back to the Philippines but dropped the plan because of alleged threats to arrest them upon their arrival in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In June this year, Malaca\u00f1ang raised the possibility that Duterte might once again open the door to another resumption of peace talks with the communist movement in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Fidel Agcaoili, the chairperson of the National Democratic Front\u2019s (NDF) peace negotiating panel, passed away on Thursday. Agcaoili, 75, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":262728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262729,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262727\/revisions\/262729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}