Having grown into an old man in Metro Manila, I've noted that Presidents' detractors try all kinds of manipulated disasters to sow discontent with whatever the current government is. In the past they cut off electric power, shut down the water supply, and let garbage rot in the streets. Today it seems to be fires gutting down factories and entire neighborhoods--quite sad because children and senior citizens perish in them.

The real disaster, though, is that NO ONE will ever be satisfied with the President, WHOEVER HE OR SHE IS AND WILL BE. Meaning that we have to suffer manipulated disasters again and again.

Is it the Latino temperament that the Spaniards endowed us with?