Rafael called Friday at four thirty.
I was at the Andrada venue for the final walk-through with Diego and I stepped outside to take the call and stood on the venue's side entrance with the afternoon sun on my back and the sounds of the venue team working inside behind me.
"It went well," he said.
"Define well," I said.
"I told them everything," he said. "That I have a daughter. That her mother and I are not together. That I have been in Cebu for the past week and a half managing a personal matter and that the company has been functioning correctly throughout, which the quarterly numbers confirm." A pause. "Villanueva tried to raise the governance framing. I addressed it directly. A personal matter, fully disclosed, does not constitute a governance concern. I invited anyone who disagree
