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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: 20,000, hindi 200,000: Cayetano pinalaki ang bilang ng gumagamit ng droga

By VERA Files | Nov 19, 2019 10:46 PM

Pinalaki ng sampung beses ni House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano ang bilang ng mga gumagamit ng iligal na droga na binanggit sa 2001 Letter of Instruction (LOI), at inulit ang walang basehang pahayag ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte tungkol sa kasalukuyang bilang ng mga adik sa droga.

Alan Peter Cayetano, drug users, drugs

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: 20,000, not 200,000: Cayetano exaggerates illegal drug users numbers

By VERA Files | Nov 19, 2019 6:12 PM

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano bloated the number of illegal drug users cited in a 2001 Letter of Instruction (LOI) ten times, repeating President Rodrigo Duterte’s baseless claim on current number of drug addicts.

Alan Peter Cayetano, drug users, drugs

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SONA 2018 Promise Tracker: Drugs and crime

By Elijah Roderos | Jul 19, 2019 4:10 PM

To eradicate illegal drugs in three to six months and to lower criminality was a campaign promise, and became the centerpiece of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. Entering the second half of his presidency, he has repeatedly promised this in all of his three State of the Nation Addresses. It is a promise still in progress.

Crime, drugs, Duterte, sona 2018, SONA promise tracker

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: How many drug addicts are there in PH? Let Duterte do the counting

By VERA Files | Nov 30, 2018 10:40 PM

How many Filipinos are slaves to shabu?

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SONA 2017 PROMISE TRACKER: Drugs and crime

By Jake Soriano | Jul 20, 2018 9:35 PM

SONA 2017 promises on drugs and crime

Crime, drugs, Duterte, SONA promise tracker

Residents from 26 barangays file protection vs police

By Arianne Christian Tapao | Oct 21, 2017 9:17 PM

They claim officers of the Manila Police District Station 6 are liable for a “systematic violence” wrought on their neighborhood.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Drug addiction not a medical problem?

Nov 05, 2016 2:55 PM

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte shuns the idea that drug addiction is a medical condition with a cure. For him, drug users are the “living walking dead” whose brains have already shrunk, […]

drugs, Duterte, Rehabilitation, United Nations

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is the DILG vetting the narco-lists?

Oct 15, 2016 2:30 PM

CAREFUL not to include wrong names on his narco-lists again, President Rodrigo Duterte said he is having them revalidated by key agencies, citing the Department of Interior and Local Government […]

dilg, drugs, Duterte, narcolists, tokhang

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Waging a bloody war on drugs

Oct 07, 2016 9:11 PM

Text and video by LUIS LIWANAG AS the veil of darkness shrouds the city, they gather and hold their nightly vigil. They are local and international journalists out to investigate […]

drugs, Duterte, Philippines

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: The ‘foolproof’ narco-list

Oct 01, 2016 11:59 PM

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he would never be “foolish” enough to commit errors on his narco-lists. The next day, he apologized to public officials he wrongly linked to […]

drugs, Duterte, narco-list