When ‘Ka Roger,’ ‘Ka Joma’ were a phone call, email away

LUCENA CITY—Quezon had long been known as the bastion of the communist insurgency when I joined the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 1998 as its provincial correspondent. Mt. Banahaw, in particular, was known then as the lair of Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal, the New People’s Army (NPA) spokesperson who had become the face of communist rebels