On Aug. 24, 2022, nearly a week before the Philippines commemorated National Heroes Day, Adora Faye de Vera, 66, was arrested in Quezon City. The police identified Adora as a staff officer of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front and a secretary of the central front of the CPP-NPA-NDF in Western Visayas. She was in hiding since she was indicted on charges of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder with the use of explosives, particularly anti-personnel landmines.
The arrest could have been among everyday news, until it surfaced that Adora is an elder sister of Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Chairman Prospero de Vera 3rd. He was an appointee of then-President Rodrigo Duterte and is among the very few government executives reappointed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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