VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte skews war on drugs figures; Aquino gets it wrong too
Duterte's misleading claim exaggerates the supposed gains of his administration’s war against illegal drugs.
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Prosecution flaws bog down fight vs drugs
(This story was first published on February 15, 2009 . We are reposting this for its relevance to the current campaign of President Duterte against drugs.) By IBARRA C. MATEO AND YVONNE T. CHUA FOR many years, Chinese national Cai Qing Hai had been on the list of Asia’s “most wanted drug manufacturers and traffickers,”
The Marine who said ‘No’
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
