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Tag Archives: Rodrigo Duterte
Lethal mix: small mind and great power
President Duterte’s reaction to the Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on the killings related to his campaign against prohibited drugs read in all Catholic churches last Sunday shows the danger when small minds are given so much power.
Tourism and peace and order
Congratulations to the people who made the staging of the 65th Miss Universe in the Philippines a rousing success. The publicity that the Philippines got from the pageant and the goodwill generated from the 86 beauties were a bonanza to Philippine tourism.
Duterte’s puzzling lack of outrage over police role in South Korean killing
On the first day of his presidency, during the turnover of command ceremonies at the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City, President Duterte boasted that he knows the scalawags in the police service.
There’s method in Duterte’s martial law ‘madness’
“Just be quiet all of you.” Spoken like a despot ordering his minions what to do.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte’s latest version on missing the APEC gala and photo op
This time, it’s supposed to be the “truth.”
It’s stomach upset, not jet lag
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS SO it was not jet lag that was the reason why President Duterte was absent in the gala dinner heads of state attending the 2017 Leaders Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Lima, Peru last Saturday as he earlier told reporters. It’s stomach upset. In his interview
Trump, Duterte share stance on key US-Asia issues
By CHARMAINE DEOGRACIAS IF newly elected US President Donald Trump makes good his campaign threat to pull the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), he might also pull the plug on the its Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the Philippines. Trump has called the international security alliance “obsolete,” saying it
Lack of public outrage emboldens Duterte to float writ suspension
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS TWO things came to our mind when we read about President Duterte’s threat of suspending the writ of habeas corpus if lawlessness in Mindanao worsens. Number one, his “Kill, Kill” strategy in eradicating the illegal drug problem is not solving the problem despite 4,000 killed. Number two, the public has been
Why not an interdependent foreign policy?
By ALBERTO ENCOMIENDA FOREIGN policy has taken center stage at this early point in the Duterte administration. It should be no surprise inasmuch as since shortly before assuming the Presidency, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has loudly made known that sea changes in foreign policy political/geopolitical direction of the country looms in the horizon, the basic premise of which is in regard to pursuing an
