Aranetarras
Sometimes high international politics can come in disguise of what is called a pink chronicle. There are also incidents that may be serious worldwide. Or the compact condensate of history. Look.
As the alliance with the United States and Japan gets closer, the Marcos government, absolutely determined, is starting to offend the maritime tensions with China, is entering its home in the Philippines. Its protagonists are two women: their first lady, the woman of Marcos on the one hand and Vice-President Sara Duterte on the other.
Some have wanted to belittle the cauldron among women by saying it would be inconsistent. Bejondeela masculinity. However, the protagonists have already pointed out that the session has little or nothing to do with the scant feeling among them. And as they have made little sense, the observers have come to the rather correct conclusion that the knot of relations with China is becoming more and more naughty.
On the other hand, it is clear that the electoral alliance for the 2022 elections, which moved the presidency of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and the vice-presidency of Sara Duterte, is a matter of the past. The main reason, relations with China, of course.
The confrontation between the most powerful women in the Philippines is a political proxy war between one's husband and the father of the other, but it would be an inexcusable simplicity. Let us leave for another occasion the story of Sara Duterte, his father Rodrigo and his entire clan and his political family. Bongbong Marcos’s wife is Araneta “Liza”.
The Araneta family has been at the head of the ranking of the Filipino oligarchy since the time of Spanish colonialism. To say that today are the lords and owners of Ilocos, that their business and their shadow reach many other corners, is the lineage that has many branches, all powerful. For more than one wedding, Marcos is already full of family. And nobody doubts who sends in Bongbong's house, deserving of fame for vague, and in his office he had to go out and deny that Liza sends, I don't know if anyone believed him.
Like Elizalde and Ynchausti, Aranés have a certain Basque origin. And the scarcity of askacy, always strives with the prolific call claim. It is true that they have not forgotten the Basque origin, but it is also true that, as in the Philippines, they always identify with far-right policies. 1936 war, for example.
In their relations with China, one can easily guess what Liza Araneta’s vision might be.
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