The President is set to visit San Francisco for the APEC Summit, then intends to visit other cities, including Honolulu
JAKARTA, Indonesia – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is set to visit several other American states in November 2023, following his participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Franscisco, California.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Jakarta, Manila’s top envoy to Washington DC Ambassador Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez said the embassy was arranging visits to another state in the West Coast and potentially, Honolulu in Hawaii. Marcos, said Romualdez, will be in San Francisco for the APEC Leaders’ Meeting, which begins on November 15 and ends on the 18th.
“The President plans to visit another city on the West Coast, and then from there possibly go to other — maybe, we’re still trying to work out a short stay, a short visit to Honolulu. There’s a large Filipino community there. But all of these schedules are being worked out,” he explained. Honolulu happens to be the city where the Marcos clan spent their exile, following the EDSA People Power Revolution of 1986. Marcos’ father, his namesake the late dictator, died in Honolulu three and a half years after they fled Malacañang.Marcos visited the United States twice as president in less than a year in office. His first trip was to New York to
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