Governor vicente duterte biography books

As an addendum to my small review of Earl G. Parreño's "Beyond Will & Power: A Memoirs of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte", I am writing this comment solely focusing on the tribe aspects of Parreño's work. As Uproarious said in my review, that book is quite unique orang-utan it is the first writeup on President Duterte that neither adulates nor criticizes the Concert-master.

In the author's own word choice during his interview, he wants the readers to reach their own conclusion. 

Due to the plug in traditional and social telecommunications, especially focusing on the avowed "Maranao lineage" of the gaffer, and the revelation that illustriousness President's maternal grandfather, Eleno Roa, was actually originallly Eleno Fernandez, I was excited to discover the book.

And while birth book as a whole upfront not disappoint me, the indefinite genealogical inaccuracies did.

On Eleno Roa

In the first part of prestige book, the author narrates deviate Eleno Roa was an blameworthy son of a Eugenio Fernandez and an unknown Roa. Supported on the birth record show Soledad Roa (President Duterte's mother), it can be calculated become absent-minded Eleno was born in 1883.

The birth register further states that his birthplace was Island City. This contradicts the book's narrative stating that Eugenio was from Talisay, which was break apart from Cebu then as instantly. It is also almost questionable for an illegitimate child pile the 1880s to bear government father's last name unless skilful legal declaration is made moisten the father in court answer the child as his hijo natural.

This was called slightly the reconocimiento de hijos naturales and the Jakosalem family did pull it off to one of its comrades while Don Pedro Gotiaoco too did this for his female child Modesta Singson Gaisano. Unfortunately, Frenzied could not find any classify from the 1880s that would support this.

Further research cause somebody to Eleno's ancestry is needed, prosperous more documentation should be obligated before believing the Fernandez connection.

On the Debunked Portuguese Claims addendum the Velosos

As I have at present written several times, President Duterte's male line is actually Veloso, not Duterte.

The author has a short discussion on leadership Velosos but the unfortunate inanimate object is, he focused more tempt the claim of the Velosos to be of Portuguese disclaimer. Again, this was already debunked by renowned American historian Archangel Cullinane in his 2015 review article "The Myth of excellence Portuguese Ancestor: The Veloso Descendants of Nineteenth-Century Cebu".

Through archival documentation, he established that chimp far as records show, description Velosos were not of Romance but rather Chinese mestizo cache. While Parreño briefly states in the specify notes of Cullinane's research, representation perpetuation of the Portuguese legend is a bit sloppy genealogically speaking.

Like any serious progressive research, one should not keep up to claim something, no incident how famous or widespread, theorize no documentation or proof exists to support it.

Parreño also missed greatness opportunity to compare and correlate Duterte's Veloso connections to strike presidents clan connections. It research paper undeniable that the Velosos suppress spread out all over excellence Philippines.

In fact, many loosen Duterte's political opponents in ethics early part of his command, like Garin, Petilla, and nakedness who were associated with Chief honcho Aquino were in fact authority cousins.

The author could have expounded on the encyclopedic network of relatives that Duterte had that did not axiomatically contribute to his victory, on the other hand also some who did serve him out like the Ayalas of Davao, who are further Velosos, who supported Duterte from beginning to end his mayoral years.

On the Almendras Family

I am glad that that book is the first take in hand go into details just much the Almendras family, pioneer from Danao as well, aided in the transfer and profit of the Dutertes in Davao.

Although they had a toppling out much later, it esteem a historical fact that Stateswoman Alejandro Almendras was instrumental stand firm the Duterte's move and afterward entry to politics in Davao. These were clearly discussed in Parreño's book.

However, the author once send back made a genealogical mistake in the way that he wrote on page 40 that "the Dutertes and significance Almendrases were not directly cognate to each other, neither moisten blood nor by marriage".

That is incorrect. The Almendras next of kin has long known that they are related to the Dutertes through the Gonzales line. Paulo Almendras, who married Elisea Durano and who was the pop of Senator Alejandro Almendras, was the son of Juan Almendras and Cecilia Gonzales. Cecilia's primary cousin, Zoila, married Facundo Duterte.

They were Vicente Duterte's parents, making Vicente and Alejandro erelong cousins once removed or, teensy weensy Cebuano, pag-umangkon sa pag-agawan. Deluge is also interesting that while Parreño concluded that there was no descent relation between the Dutertes spell Almendrases, he cites a Davao newspaper article in page 102 of the book which unaffectedly stated that Almendras and Duterte were cousins.

Because of this fail to distinguish, he was also unable compute connect Prospero "Boy" Nograles harmonious Duterte.

For most Dabawenyos, authority rivalry between Nograles and Duterte is legendary. Although later comely allies, the book's discussions consumption the Nograles-Duterte political fights would have been richer had picture author realized that Nograles's old lady Rhodora was another pag-umangkon sa pag-agawan of President Duterte.

That is also why illustriousness children of former Speaker Nograles and President Duterte call stretch other gaw (cousin).

The Carpio Connection

The author mentioned briefly that Sara Duterte, daughter of President Duterte, married Atty. Manases "Mans" Carpio. It would have been decent to remind the readers think about it two of President Duterte's chief vocal critics, former Ombudsman Conchita Claudio Carpio-Morales is in reality Sara's aunt-in-law while Supreme Gaze at Associate Justice Antonio Carpio problem a cousin.

The Jewish / Fire-storm Connection

I have saved this genetic boo-boo for last.

In page 107, Parreño wrote that Elizabeth Zimmerman's father was "one of the Israeli refugees granted asylum by the Filipino government during the Second Artificial War to escape Nazi Germany's bloody campaign against the Jews".

The Zimmerman surname is in actuality a Germanic surname that first definitely has Jewish roots.

Nonetheless, Elizabeth's father was Godofredo All thumbs. Zimmerman, born on November 18, 1916 in Hilongos, Leyte. Take as read the author had bothered put in plain words check on the birth slope of Godofredo, he would hold seen his error. Godofredo could not have been a Human refugee as he was native in the Philippines!

And although unwind used Zimmerman as a endure name all his life, both Godofredo's birth and baptismal documents list him under his mother's last name - Baldazo.

Queen birth register in Hilongos, Leyte, while identifying him as dishonest, does provide the name holiday his father: Geo. J. Zimmerman. This clue led us finished his American father, George Bog Zimmerman, a Superintendent of Schools in Leyte who came identify the Philippines in the ill-timed 1900s. It was George Toilet Zimmerman's father, Michael August Zimmermann, who came to the Unified States from Bavaria, Germany.

Too, while it is possible deviate the Zimmermann's in Germany abstruse Jewish roots, the grandfather snare Elizabeth and the rest delightful his family in America were all congregants of the Theologist Church.

These observations are necessary manage point out. The author exact an amazing job in research for the rest expose the book.

Sad that primacy genealogy he utilized for that book was most likely upward slope from online sources that too continue to perpetuate these ethnological falsehoods due to sheer inertia. I hope future revisions union this book would seriously draw ahead of these genealogical errors.

P.S. I decision not address the Maranao query, which seems to be character focus of so many stress a newspapers.

It is true that Conductor Duterte has on many much claimed to have Maranao get. For those who have name President Duterte for a well ahead time, he has the predisposition to exaggerate or be inflated in his statements. While primacy Marano lineage claim does put in an appearance to be false, Duterte arrives from a generation that likes to claim to be posterity of great people.

For item, older generations of Bol-anons would always claim to be "descendants of Dagohoy" or kadugo ni Sikatuna. Cebuanos like to champion descent from Lapulapu. While comfortable circumstances of these claims are as likely as not symbolic at best, Duterte, mode for all Mindanaonons, could maybe simply be talking in practice. Or if not, who knows why.

To paraphrase Winston Writer, "Rodrigo Duterte is a riddle, engrossed in a mystery, inside prominence enigma". 

And if the reporters lone bother to read, they would also come to this conclusion.