Just what I wrote several months ago, the neglect that the government did in Yolanda-ravaged areas in the Visayas will surely spill over into other areas, especially in Metropolitan areas such as Manila. Various estimates put the damage at 64 billion pesos yet the human dimension of this tragedy remains unquantifiable. The daily suffering and toil of the people will eventually turn into a movement, and this movement will eventually appear before us like a humongous ghost of destructive and revolutionary proportions.
The lack of a blueprint is taking its toil on the people. The entire area has been carved into fiefdoms by numerous families, wanting to get a share of the precious real estate which prices have suddenly become extremely cheap. These family corporations, composed of those being managed by the elites of this country, want nothing more than seize the real estate for their own. They cloak this with such salubrious words as "AID", but in reality, their intentions are simply focused on merely turning these areas into veritable markets for their services and goods. They see these people as nothing more than statistics and consumers to add to their sales invoices.
Eventually, this problem will transform itself naturally into a human one. A new insurgency will spring out from this or worse, syndicalism will arise if the needs of these people remain unmet.
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