16 Jan 2023
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... remarkable is that this comeback materialized in Rodrigo Duterte, an alleged ex-communist insurgent who joined ... still, bizarrely, at the helm of the centre-left party – Duterte shredded human rights by putting anyone who stood in ... drug dealers; many thousands lost their lives. When Duterte’s non-renewable term finished, Bongbong saw his ...
12 Nov 2021
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... Do we have weapons, do we have everything?’ President Duterte asked in his State of the Nation address last July, ...
17 Aug 2021
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... have lingered since then. Our hardline president, Rodrigo Duterte, has in typical fashion threatened people with jail ...
28 Apr 2021
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... was outnumbered. Many of her neighbours voted for Rodrigo Duterte, the brash mayor of Davao who promised to solve the ... he would help poor people like her. The drug problem that Duterte promised to solve wasn’t an issue in her area, she ... movies – and they keep electing them. They saw this in Duterte, who packaged himself as pro-poor and anti-elite. He ...
9 Nov 2020
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... other autocratic populist leaders: Bolsonaro in Brazil, Duterte in the Philippines, Orban in Hungary, Erdogan in ...
2 Sep 2020
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... shared workplace. In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has used the crisis to imprison more of his political ...
15 Feb 2019
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... Rappler – and a thorn in the side of President Rodrigo Duterte. [ ... https://newint.org/features/2018/06/06/rappler-rodrigo-duterte-fighting-... The feisty journalist, hailed as Time ... and brought to court. Let us not forget that President Duterte’s critic, Senator Leila de Lima, is still in jail ...
18 Jun 2018
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... not only by the likes of Trump, Putin, Kim Jong-un and Duterte but also Myanmar’s genocide-denying Aung San Suu ...
5 Jun 2018
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... busy third-floor office. After President Rodrigo Duterte came into power in 2016, the online news outfit received threats from his supporters. In Duterte’s regime, Rappler is the little boy who cried, ‘The Emperor has no clothes!’ The Duterte administration has tried everything in its power to ...
19 Apr 2018
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... the rise of populist leaders such as Trump, Erdogan and Duterte, a great urgency has emerged to ‘ avert the trend ...
22 Jan 2018
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... the then newly elected, authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte . She established the first-ever forums for ... are still being filed in core protected areas. However, Duterte has restated his broad support for the ban on ...
19 Dec 2017
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... cultural values. In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has demonstrated his lack of respect for the rule of ...