Western Visayas

On the other hand, PCG, Philippine Navy, and Philippine Marine Corps personnel conducted another mission in the Kalayaan Island Group to drive away five Vietnamese fishing vessels from the territorial waters of Kota Island on the same day.

The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said on Monday, October 12th, that most of the country may be experiencing rain showers and thunderstorms over the next three days, particularly in southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao due to the intertropical convergence zone.

PAGASA said that the northeasterly wind flow, an early indication of the approaching northeast monsoon or Amihan, may be prevailing over most of northern Luzon.

The ITCZ, or the merging of winds from the northern and southern hemispheres, may be bringing cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms over Bicol Region, Mimaropa, Western Visayas, Negros Island, Central Visayas, Caraga, Northern Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula, Leyte, and Southern Leyte.

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The nabobs of the sugar industry who owned the sugar plantation and sugar mills and refineries in the Philippines were, in effect, primarily serving US sugar interests.

At one point in the past century, the most powerful political force in the country was a so-called sugar bloc, which meant the industry nabobs mostly based in Western Visayas and Central Luzon.

The unqualified US support to the national government's efforts to crush the Huk-led insurgency was partly an effort to protect the industry nabobs supplying sugar to the US and maintain the feudal structure that allowed vast sugar landholdings to produce sugar mostly bound for the US market but serving other markets as well.

That also was the time the Philippines literally shipped sugar to the Seven Seas.

Yeah

... especially Bicol, no? And then Western Visayas, Iloilo.

And then for the pro-Duterte, it's, it's Mindanao, for example.

So there's, um, uh, may ano eh, may, uh, intimate relationship, no, between the partisanship and the ethnolinguistic basis, no?