The burning question of the day was -- who is Zuleika Lopez? There was an attempt by this writer to write about her in the recent past. Immediately after the article was published, friends from Davao city began messaging me. All pointed to one detail that I had not written – Zuleika was more than just a chief of staff.
The message was clear – Duterte is deathly afraid of getting his dozens of bank accounts exposed more than his fear of the International Criminal Court.
As Sara Duterte had left the helm of the Department of Education, Edward Fajarda and his wife Sunshine Charry also transitioned to the Office of the Vice President. They were not to be left on their own at the DepEd without her. They were to go wherever their boss goes. That was how indispensable they were to her.
It was the sign that Rodrigo Duterte had succeeded in outmatching (naisahan) the senators when he came to the Senate and brought it down to his level of gutter talk and bullying:
Nolasco Mempin retired January 28, 2023 as a major general in the Philippine Army. His last two assignments were interesting.
Hitman: Bong Go is the bagman who gives the money to finance when there is a killing operation. If not to the other group of hit men, then to us. But he also has a personal group of hit men, like Titing, he has his own personal hit men.
Tribute of former mayor of Tangub City Philip Tan to the late president Benigno Aquino III for Panguil Bay Bridge: To the man that we had worked with for a short period but whose legacy will forever be remembered: Daghang Salamat sa imong kaayo para sa Misamisnon
Arturo Lascañas: Bong Go developed a very useful strategy for the killings. He was the first to use the personal information data of the targets that he had secured through an arrangement with the Land Transportation Office.
Arturo Lascañas, in an affidavit submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Royina Garma was so deeply into the Davao Death Squad killings even before Duterte became president.
Duterte’s real dilemma lies in the bankruptcy of his political strategy that he and and his chief political strategist and ideologue, Leoncio B. Evasco, Jr. thought they could reprise from his 2016 run.
