"The reports are nothing but a rehash of old and recycled issues." This was how Malacañang described the US State Department's 2021 Reports on Human Rights Practices in the Philippines, saying the United States should put its embassy officials in Manila to work to verify the information it is...
Reelectionist Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, April 13 deplored the reported falsified death certificates of the people killed under President Duterte’s “war on drugs”, which showed that the anti-narcotics campaign was “an organized malevolent conspiracy that involved even medical...
A total of 398 elected officials have been arrested in various anti-illegal drug operations since President Duterte launched the controversial "drug war" in 2016, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) vowed on Friday, April 1, to intensify their operations as the May 2022 elections...
President Duterte is pinning his hopes that his successor would continue his administration’s relentless campaign against illegal drugs, a problem that he described “will destroy our country.” President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the nation on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (RTVM Screenshot) In his...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo said on Wednesday, Jan. 26, that the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has since deferred preliminary investigations into President Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, will be allowed in the country if she wins in the May 2022 polls. Vice...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo joined veteran journalist Jessica Soho for GMA News’ presidential interviews where she spoke her mind on key national issues, including the alleged rampant corruption in government, the controversial war on drugs, the government’s pandemic...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday said President Duterte’s refusal to apologize to drug war victims comes as no surprise saying history shows that tyrants and mass murderers never apologized for their crimes. Thus, De Lima said only history would judge Duterte for his crimes against...
President Duterte praised the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for their sustained anti-illegal drug campaign in the country, even as he hoped that the law enforcers would continue their efforts in the coming months. President Rodrigo...
Despite concerns raised by human rights groups on drug-related killings, President Duterte stood firm in his stance not to apologize to the deaths that resulted from his administration’s drug war. President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the nation on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (Malacañang photo) In his...
Presidential aspirant Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Thursday, Dec. 30 said that strong foreign liaisons is a must in the government's war against illegal drugs. Lacson said this was the formula that he used in his law enforcement days to coordinate with other countries in preventing the entry of...
A total of 6,221 illegal drugs personalities were killed while 13,996 drug suspects were arrested since President Duterte launched an intensified campaign against illegal drugs. In its July 1, 2016 to Nov. 30, 2021 “Real Numbers’’ data, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) noted that...
(First of three parts) Despite being down to his last days in office, President Duterte continued to be one of the country's biggest newsmakers of 2021 as he faced issues from becoming a social media trending topic to the country's pandemic response. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the...
