BY JUN VELASCO
IT WAS fiesta galore for Mocha Uson and company in Dagupan last weekend when the Assistant Press Secretary breezed into town with a joyous entourage that included beloved mom, cumadre, Dr. Ester Justiniano Uson.
Of course, many if not most of you, dear readers, are familiar with the cute dancing queen who President Duterte credited for effectively helping him win the presidency in the last elections thru her blog.
Her mother stood as the baptism ninang of our youngest son, Youssef, a Malacañang-based director himself, and favorite friend of Dr. Cathy; the duo being connected with the Region 1 Medical Center.
A pretty girl (she is chum of our daughter Kharmina, her schoolmate at Mother Goose Playskol), Mocha immediately attracted the public’s attention.
Her suave movement, fine- tuned by her group, Mocha Girls’ tutelage in many entertainment centers in Manila, sent a message to all her friends, relatives and kabaleyans that she is now a fully developed girl ready to take on anyone chew tough, worldly and whatever issues that affect the country.
Her late erpat, Judge Gary Uson, used to be a columnist of a Pangasinan newspaper, the Weekly Tribune, and a director of the Pangasinan Press & Radio Club when were president. Gary, along with Atty. Gonzalo Duque, now SSS commissioner, was our counsel in the Federation of Provincial Press Club when we were its president in 1986.
During her sentimental visit – Mocha’s first ever after her appointment as media Asec – Mocha showed her still girlish ways that endeared the familiar folk she used to hang around with, at Mother Goose Playskol founded by our friends Dr. Gloria Samson-Beltran and sister, Dr. Aurora S. Reyna, where she and Kharmina finished their grade and high school years.
Mocha eventually enrolled at UST to take up Med-Tech and for a while stayed at our rented apartment at Loyola Heights in Q.C.
She was an astute and outstanding student. Upon graduation, she founded the Mocha Girls that made modern dancing an acceptable norm.
In 2009 when we were president of the Rotary Club of Metro Cubao, we invited the group to provide entertainment, with Mocha on the lead. She is a good singer-cum dancer.
It’s been some time she hasn’t showed up, but this time, a fully grown lady with a mind – a sharp one – of her own. Being a Duterte campaigner, Mocha believes that her friend-tatay – President Digong whom she met thru Gonzalo Duque – was destined to lead the country from the rut it is mired in.
We’ve been saying Digong’s anti-American rhetoric is not anti-American people, but of course, anti-imperialist policies.
His erpat Gary, Atty. Gonz, and this columnist were on the forefront of the anti-imperialism campaign during the Marcos years, which led to our incarceration at Camp Aquino in 1972.
We, too, were not anti-Marcos – but against the system that created the fallen country that we all find ourselves in up to now.
It’s time that PH under President Digong bounces back from the fall. Mocha, a Duterte fan, is on track. She is now a lady-public egging to serve our country. (juanitomvelasco@yahoo.com/PN)
