Abstract
Abstract
More than 6000 people died in Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan in November 2013. Four years later, the people of the Eastern Visayas are the most impoverished in the Republic. This is a consequence of the Aquino and Duterte governments' approach to postdisaster reconstruction. The approach can be characterized as disaster capitalism, undergirded by neoliberalism. The withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement will likely lead to more disasters of such magnitude in the future. Furthermore, without opposition from organized masses, the disaster capitalism regime will likely be the operant approach to future disasters. The people of the Eastern Visayas have organized to oppose the Philippine government's lack of action and to demand just distribution of the governmental and international support.
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