Cha-Cha revival betrays Duterte’s desperation
Listening to President Duterte say that he is not interested in staying beyond June 30, 2022 reminds us of his denials about running for president in 2016.
Tag Archives: Rodrigo Duterte
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte mali sa pagsabing ‘lahat’ ng mga hukom ng ICC ay ‘Puti’
Hindi totoo ang sinabi ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ang lahat ng mga hukom ng International Criminal Court (ICC) ay "Puti" nang sagutin niya ang update noong Disyembre 2020 ng paunang pagsusuri ng korte sa mga hinihinalang krimen laban sa sangkatauhan na nagawa sa giyera ng gobyerno kontra droga.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wrong in claiming ‘all’ ICC judges are ‘White’
President Rodrigo Duterte mistakenly claimed that all the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “White” when he responded to the December 2020 update of the court’s preliminary examination into alleged crimes against humanity committed in the government’s war on drugs.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Matapos suportahan ang panawagan para sa ‘global ceasefire’ sa gitna ng pandemic, sinabi ni Duterte na ‘patay na’ ang truce sa ‘Reds’
Sa loob lamang ng apat na araw, nagbago ng posisyon si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte mula sa pagpapahayag ng suporta sa panukala sa United Nations (UN) para sa isang pandaigdigang tigil-putukan sa panahon ng pandemic hanggang sa pagpatay są anumang posibilidad ng pansamantalang paghinto ng pakikipaglaban sa Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) sa natitirang bahagi ng ang kanyang termino.
FACT CHECK: After supporting call for ‘global ceasefire’ amid pandemic, Duterte says truce with ‘Reds’ is ‘dead’
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.
Face of Janus: Sharply Contrasting Duterte Bios
Judging by the sparse review population, there continues to be hardly any broad public interest on two biographies of Rodrigo Duterte that came out in the past two years.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Website revives INACCURATE story on waived fees for gov’t documents
It's only applicable for first-time jobseekers.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT order Palparan’s prison release
No such pronouncement has come from either the president or Malacañang.
Time to hold Duterte accountable now
Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Benigno Aquino III’s vaunted reputation before the world as a competent Philippine president.
Rising fortunes, secret SALNs
Are there secrets in the Duterte SALN? Ombudsman Samuel Martires’ Memorandum Circular 1 restricting public access to Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth applies retroactively to the president. Coming soon is a script qualified for Ripley’s Believe It or Not where SALNs will again play a major role: while the president’s 2018 and 2019 SALNs remain publicly undisclosed, Solicitor General Jose Calida has appealed to the Supreme Court to release justice Marvic Leonen’s SALN that many read as groundwork for a quo warranto case against the high court’s third most senior justice. As in the Sereno ouster, it appears to be a Calida-Larry Gadon plot.
