ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS LENI Robredo wanted to swiftly descend on Marawi thinking that the Maute was just like a typhoon. She wanted to make up for her absence last December, when parts of Bicol, her home region, were ravaged by Typhoon Nina. She left to spend her holidays in the US fully aware that Naga was on the direct path of the storm. And she used as an excuse for her failure to come home sooner the fact that all the flights were booked. It was such a traumatic event for Leni. It was, in her political timeline, a major milestone in her unraveling. It definitely painted her as detached and uncaring. People were looking for her, but it was Georgina whom they found. This time in Marawi, she...
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