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Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo: Waiting For Something To Happen To The President

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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – Nevermind that Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte appointed her to head a cabinet position as chair of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC).

Nevermind that she she traveled to the United States seeking to enlist partners in the private sector to support her advocacies as vice president.

Leni Robredo thinks that she has no real powers “except to wait for something to happen to the president.”

That wait can be hours, days, weeks, or up to six years.

Here is what she said before an audience of Filipino Americans in Philadelphia last week.

 

 

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Uniting The Filipino People: President Duterte To Rename Libingan Ng Mga Bayani

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image.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Without any doubt, the Filipino people are bitterly divided over the issue of the burial of the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani (National Heroes’ Cemetery).

Duterte, in fulfilling a campaign promise, has approved the transfer of Marcos’ remains from the refrigerated crypt in his hometown of Batac, Ilocos Norte, to Libingan Ng Mga Bayani.

While many support Duterte’s decision as a way for the Filipinos to move on, others have expressed objection on the grounds that the late dictator allegedly faked many of his war medals.  In addition,  protesters say that Marcos’ record of human rights abuses during his Martial Law regime doesn’t qualify him to be buried alongside the country’s fallen heroes.

To solve the controversy once and for all, Duterte issued an Executive Order renaming Libingan Ng Mga Bayani to ‘Libingan Ng Mga Bayani At Iba Pa’ (Cemetery of National Heroes And Others).

Well, that should put an end to this very sticky issue.

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Philippines To Build A Wall Around The New Trump Tower In Manila

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The new Trump Tower in Makati City, Philippines

MAKATI CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – On Monday, Filipino Congressman Joey Sarte filed a resolution in Manila’s House of Representatives that seeks to permanently ban U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from entering the country following his campaign speech last week where a he named the Philippines as one of the “terrorist nations.”

During a rally in Portland, Maine, Trump announced that immigrants came to the U.S. legally and then plotted to murder Americans. He said that countries like the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen were sending such people to the U.S. and called them “terrorist nations.”

“We’re letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them,” the real estate mogul said.

In the upper chamber, Senator Manny Pacquiao filed a separate resolution that would authorize the government to build a wall around the 56-storey Trump Tower in Makati City.  The residential building is set to open at the end of this year and is one of the international real estate projects of the Trump Organization.

In a statement issued to the press, Pacquiao said that the wall will ensure that Donald Trump will not be able to sneak into the property, in the event that his arrival in the Philippines is not detected by the country’s Bureau of Immigration.

“As a persona non grata, Trump should be barred from entering the Philippines or accessing his property in the country,” Pacquiao said.

In addition to the wall, Pacquiao’s resolution also mandates that the property be patrolled 24/7 by the Philippine National Police.

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