RACHEL A.G. REYES
“POLITICS,” Ramon Durano (1905-1988) once said, “is not something you can entrust to non-relatives.” The Cebuano patriarch and ruthless warlord lived by his word. Since the mid-1950s, Danao, a relatively wealthy and populous coastal municipality about 30 kilometers north of Cebu City, has remained under the tight control of a single family — the Duranos.