Sen. Imee Marcos wrongly claimed that her father, former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., was awarded three types of military decorations from the U.S. government for his military service during the Second World War.
In just four days, President Rodrigo Duterte went from expressing support to the proposal in the United Nations (UN) for a global ceasefire during the pandemic to killing any possibility of a truce with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) for the rest of his term.
The Duterte administration sent mixed signals on coming up with an “arrangement” on defense matters with the United States (U.S.) when it recently suspended for another six months the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).
Former Education undersecretary and 2019 senatorial aspirant Antonio “Butch” Valdes propagated an incorrect claim about the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) “finally admitting” that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) death count in the U.S. is way less than was originally reported.
From vowing to bring peace in Mindanao before the end of his six-year term in 2022, President Rodrigo Duterte now says it would “take more than a generation” to do so, following the twin bombings that rocked Jolo on Aug. 24.
