LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Vice President Leni Robredo has raised the standard of political discourse in this country. That was evident in the acuity of her speech (in Tagalog) announcing that she will run (sasabak ako!) for president in the elections of 2022. I viewed it on YouTube so I could...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Like it or not, believe it or not, Cuba and Venezuela are forging ahead of us in this battle against COVID-19 and its deadlier mutations. At this writing, a first case of the dreaded UK variant was reported in Pasay City, which makes one wonder if there are many more...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Historically speaking, Cuba is our sister republic. Both of us were colonies of Spain and launched our anti-colonial movements at the same time. In fact, Jose Rizal and Antonio Luna wrote to each other about the Cuban revolution; Rizal observed that the Cayo Hueso (Key...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta When the presidential elections in the USA were over, I felt it was time to unglue myself from You Tube and go back to listening to local news on AM radio. But when Capitol Hill was attacked on 6 January, breached and occupied by what looked like a...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta “Maybe, I will have to leave the country,” former US President Donald Trump said, jokingly, in one of his super-spreader rallies. He firmly believed that there was only a one in a quadrillion possibility that he could lose the 3 November elections. Well, he did...
LANDSCAPE The United States of America is no longer a ship at full sail, it seems. Although I am not a US citizen, I am afraid for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as their lives are and will always be in constant danger. They are the moving targets of...
LANDSCAPE Very few Cebuanos remember that the patron saint of their capital, Cebu City, is not the wildly worshipped Santo Nino but the obscure Catholic martyr, San Vidal. As you probably know, in 1521, Ferdinand Magellan gave the queen of Cebu a statue of the Santo Nino because she took a...
