The province of Cavite suffered damage from heavy rainfall brought by Typhoon Crising and the southwest monsoon. On July 22, a state of calamity was declared on the province.

Floods submerged at least nine towns and municipalities in the province. In Bacoor, 43 of 47 barangays were recorded affected. Most residents are urban poor, workers, and fishermen. Flooding did not spare even large enclaves like Cavite Economic Zone (CEZ). This forced up to 1,345 families to evacuate.

Rough waves that prevented seafaring and fishing adversely affected the livelihood of 30,000 local fishermen.

Damages to agricultural products in Alfonso, Naic, and Tanza towns reached around ₱3.2 million. Rice crops worth ₱1.5 million were damaged in General Trias, Imus, and Naic, while corn worth ₱407,500 was lost in Alfonso and Tanza.

Despite all this, Marcos trivialized the catastrophe facing the Filipino people. He even called severe flooding a “new normal” and said it was no longer extraordinary. Instead of addressing flooding problems, he evaded culpability and even boosted his image in his fourth State of the Nation Address. He reprimanded government officials, telling them “shame on you” for profiting from failed flood control projects. He even boasted of 9,856 completed flood control projects funded with over half a trillion pesos since 2022, without anything to show for its supposed improvement.

In fact, he is himself primarily responsible for the environmental destruction that caused widespread flooding in the country. His regime continues to allow operations and construction of conversion projects that bring irreparable damage to large land areas and seas in the province.

These projects include the Frabelle Fishing Corporation’s 421-hectare Diamond Reclamation Project and Bacoor Reclamation and Development Project; construction of massive Serin condominium estates and Ayala malls in Tagaytay areas; construction of River Revetment Wall in Sitio Pasipit, Barangay Tubuan 3, Silang; the 3,500-hectare Villar City Project covering parts of Barangay Salawag and Barangay Paliparan in Dasmariñas; and the 11.7-kilometer LRT-1 Cavite Extension across four barangays of Bacoor. In exchange for these projects are the destruction of the livelihoods of thousands and massive displacement in Cavite.

The regime colludes with local bureaucrat-capitalists and political dynasties now ruling each district of the province and benefiting from such projects, including the Tolentino, Barzaga, Revilla-Bautista, and Advincula families.

NDF-Cavite spokesperson Simeon Magdiwang said the broadest sectors of Cavite residents should unite to hold the US-Marcos regime accountable for all its crimes against the Filipino people. “Only by taking the path and program of the national democratic struggle with a socialist perspective can we achieve true development and change. Marching on this path will lay the foundation of our great strength to bring our revolutionary struggle to success. Only on this path can we see a bright future for the people,” Ka Simeon said.