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Side effects of Duterte’s war against illegal drugs

Aug 05, 2016 9:48 AM

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS DO you feel sick watching daily images on TV and newspapers of people killed, lying lifeless on the sidewalks covered with newspapers or plastic with only their dirty feet and worn-out rubber slippers seen? And of course near the corpse, the cardboard sign “Drug pusher ako, huwag tularan”, which has now […]

illegal drugs, Rodrigo Duterte

Duterte: A poor drug user is also a pusher

Aug 03, 2016 6:00 AM

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS A drug user who is rich is not necessarily a pusher because he has the money to buy the illegal substance. But if the drug user is poor, he is also a pusher. That’s according to President Duterte. In the President’s meeting with soldiers and policemen in Camp Nakar […]

illegal drugs, Michael Siaron, Rodrigo Duterte

Photo-journalists debunk doubts on ‘La Pieta’ picture

Jul 29, 2016 6:25 AM

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PROOF of the greatness of a creation is the emotion that it evokes, favorable or unfavorable. Such is the picture of Jennelyn Olaires cradling the dead body of her partner, Michael Siaron, a 30-year-old pedicab driver, who was shot dead by motorcycle-riding men […]

Extra-judicial killings, illegal drugs, La Pieta

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The Marine who said ‘No’

Jan 26, 2016 10:17 PM

This article was first published on January 18, 2009. We are re-posting this as Lt. Col Ferdinand Marcelino is again in the news after he was arrested in a drug bust operation last Jan. 21. Marcelino says his presence in the shabu den was a legal operation. His lawyer said s say it was a […]

Ferdinand Marcelino, illegal drugs, PDEA