Conversations with Arturo Lascañas Part 2
Lascañas reveals plots to kill De Lima and Fr. Lamata, the real reason Parojinog and members of his family were murdered and Duterte’s instruction to rape women drug suspects.
Tag Archives: Rodrigo Duterte
VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: The Phantom of Duterte’s Disinformation Opera
Misleading claims of former president Rodrigo Duterte on the jurisdiction of the ICC continued to haunt the disinformation landscape in 2023 even as the current administration now considers cooperating in the tribunal’s ongoing probe into the bloody drug war.
Conversations with Arturo Lascañas, Part 1: ‘Duterte is the lord of all drug lords in southern Philippines’
To be a major assassin in the Davao Death Squad, Rodrigo Duterte insisted on one requirement: omerta.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Rodrigo Duterte’s statement on NTF-ELCAC NEEDS CONTEXT
Former president Rodrigo Duterte has claimed that the NTF-ELCAC was a “very successful” initiative of the AFP in reducing the number of communist insurgents. This needs context.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Rodrigo Duterte tungkol sa NTF-ELCAC nangangailangan ng konteksto
Ayon sa EO No. 70 na pinirmahan ni Duterte noong 2018, itinatag ang NTF-ELCAC sa ilalim ng Office of the President, hindi ng AFP, para tulungan ang mga komunidad na nanganganib dahil sa armadong-tunggalian.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos nag-iba ng posisyon sa posibilidad ng muling pagsali ng PH sa ICC
Mula sa pagsasabi noong Agosto 2022 na ang Pilipinas ay "walang intensyon" na muling sumali sa International Criminal Court (ICC), sinabi ngayon ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na ang pagbabalik ng Pilipinas sa Netherlands-based tribunal ay “pinag-aaralan.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos changes tune on the possibility of PH rejoining ICC
From saying in August 2022 that the Philippines “has no intention” of rejoining the ICC, Marcos now says the Philippines’ return to the Netherlands-based tribunal is “under study.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Roque na ‘hindi nagbigay ng testimonya’ si Duterte laban kay De Lima KULANG SA KONTEKSTO
Bagama’t walang opisyal na testimonya si Rodrigo Duterte sa korte, nagbitiw siya ng mga pahayag na inaakusahan si Leila De Lima na sangkot sa illegal drug trading noong kalihim siya ng Department of Justice.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Now that he is no longer president, Duterte says solving corruption is ‘easy’
Toward the end of his six-year presidency, Rodrigo Duterte said “nobody can stop corruption.” No longer in power, he now says “it is easy” to control this menace.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Ngayong hindi na siya presidente, sinabi ni Duterte na ‘madali’ lutasin ang korapsyon
Sa pagtatapos ng kanyang anim na taong pagkapangulo, sinabi ni Rodrigo Duterte na "walang sinuman ang makakapigil sa katiwalian." Wala na sa kapangyarihan, sinasabi niya ngayon na "madali" kontrolin ang bantang ito.
