purpose of the Veterans' League was to help get the Hukbalahap recognized as a legitimate guerrilla movement. During this time, the relationship between the American forces and the Hukbalahap deteriorated further, owing to its antagonistic relationship with the USAFFE guerrillas. Huk veterans were persecuted and charged with sedition and rebellion, and some veterans chose to not descend from the mountains. This lack of recognition, combined with peasant abuses by the landowning class, and the results of the 1946 elections, added to the growing unrest in Central Luzon. This led to former Huk veterans going back to the mountains, a situation described as a "spontaneous peasant revolution". In June 1946, veterans of the Hukbalahap met in Candaba, Pampanga, to form a contingency plan. The Central Luzon Command and the South Luzon Command were both established. Alejandrino was again elected vice-commander. Two months later, Juan Feleo, a noted peasant activist, was taken and killed by armed men. As a result of this, the peasantry took to arms against the government in open rebellion, reforming the Hukbalahap as the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (HMB). Alejandrino would resume his guerrilla activities, commanding Reco 4 from 1949 to 1951. On February 15, 1954, Alejandrino went into talks with the Magsaysay administration, which failed. That April, he arrived in the Bulacan area of the Sierra Madre, carrying an order from the PKP secretariat to arrest Taruc on charges of deviating from the party line, leading to Taruc's surrender to the government. Alejandrino continued the struggle for three more years. In 1957, Alejandrino met up with remnants of the HMB in Zambales and gradually implemented a strategy of legal struggle, ending the armed rebellion of the Hukbalahap. On October 21, 1960, Alejandrino was arrested in Malabon on charges of violating RA 1700, known as the Anti-Subversion Law, and was imprisoned. He died on July 12, 2005. Personal life Alejandrino was a member of the well-to-do Alejandrino family, who were landowners in Pampanga. Members include 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 and Carlos are both Casto's nephews. During his time in the guerrilla movement, Alejandrino had a wife and children living in the barrio. He also had two "forest wives" while in the field, Teofista Valerio and Belen Bagul-Bagul. Valerio (alias "Estrella") was the head of Huk communications in Manila.