The Archive of Non-Appearance: Curating the Negative Ledger of Sovereign Absence in the Impeachment Theater
The Archive of Non-Appearance: Curating the Negative Ledger of Sovereign Absence in the Impeachment Theater Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™ October 6, 2026 Curatorial Frame In the humid chamber of the Senate sitting as an impeachment court, where the air itself seems to carry the weight of unfinished ledgers and unfinished lives, a moment of pure negative space opened on 6 October 2026. Defense counsel Atty. Mark Vinluan, speaking for Vice President Sara Duterte, asked the Anti-Money Laundering Council Secretariat Executive Director, Atty. Ronel U. Buenaventura, two deceptively simple questions about the ₱319.3 million in inward remittances that had reached CALE88 Foods Corp., a banana-chip enterprise once substantially held by the Vice President’s husband, Atty. Manases Carpio. First: did the AMLC records show that the China-based entities involved were *not* legitimate business entities? Second: did those same records show that the entities represented China itself or the C...