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The Philippines is recovering from six destructive typhoons in the past month. But its leaders are busily fighting among themselves.
Family feud: cutouts of Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos and Sara Duterte displayed during a protest in Manila, July 2024. EPA-EFE/Rolex dela Pena
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Despite an onslaught of typhoons relentlessly battering the country over the past week, the headline-grabber was former president Rodrigo Duterte’s dramatic appearance before the House of Representatives’ powerful quad committee. This super committee has been digging into a host of contentious (…)
“What prompted Duterte to appear before the Senate and engage in what may, at first glance, look like a self-sabotaging performance? My brief answer: He is fighting a crucial political battle that his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, is losing. The vice presidency remains her last (…)
When, against all expectations, Rodrigo Duterte won the presidential elections in 2016, people wondered how long the former Davao mayor could maintain the sudden surge in popularity that had propelled him to the nation’s highest office.
His parochial experience as the autocratic political (…)
Overdue more than nine months after the breakthrough Oslo Joint Statement of 23 November 2023 between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) [led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and New People’s Army (…)
Four presidential amnesty Proclamations Nos. 403 (for the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa ng Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade), 404 (for the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front), 405 (for the Moro Islamic Liberation (…)
A week after the second State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr., increases in fuel prices were announced. This movement in fuel prices would eventually affect the price of all commodities while various areas of the country have been swept by typhoon Egay (…)
“If you’ve been in government long enough, you’ll have seen many of these,” said President Marcos the other day by way of downplaying the abrupt ouster of Pampanga representative and former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) from her position as senior deputy speaker of the House of (…)
Anti-globalization activist Walden Bello is charged with « libel“and”cyberlibel," a charge that carries very heavy penalties in the Philippines.
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Focus on the Global South: Speaking truth to power is not a crime: drop charges against (…)
Anti-globalization activist Walden Bello was arrested on August 8, 2022 on charges of “libel” and “cyberlibel,” a charge that carries very heavy penalties in the Philippines.
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Walden Bello, with whom we have shared many struggles, was arrested on August 8 in (…)
MANILA, Philippines (Update 2, 7:45 p.m.) — Quezon City police served former vice-presidential candidate Walden Bello a warrant of arrest at around 4 p.m. on Monday in relation to the cyberlibel charges filed against him by a former Davao City employee.
Bello is facing two charges and his (…)
On Monday, 8 August 2022, Dr. Walden Bello was arrested on two counts of libel and cyber libel filed by a former staff of Vice President Sara Duterte over statements made by Bello during the electoral campaign.
We at Focus on the Global South condemn in the strongest terms the arrest of our (…)
’President Marcos has a golden opportunity to get the Philippines on the right track by setting out clear priorities and policies to improve human rights in the country,’ says Human Rights Watch.
MANILA, Philippines – There was zero mention of human rights when Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (…)
On July 25, 2022, Ferdinand Marcos Jr will deliver his first annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) before the National Assembly. On the eve of this address, we publish below an article written at the beginning of the month, after the inaugural speech of the new president on the occasion of (…)
President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. began his inaugural speech last June 30 with a reiteration of his call for unity and ended with a plea for Filipinos to have hope that, under his watch, the future will be better. Yet, in various parts of the speech, the message of unity is subverted by (…)
’Nasa sa atin po ang lahat para sabihin na hindi tayo failure nung eleksiyon,’ says ex-VP Leni Robredo as she challenges supporters to do more advocacy work with Angat Buhay
MANILA, Philippines – Former vice president Leni Robredo launched her non-governmental organization “Angat Buhay,” (…)
Martial Law survivors say: ’Nagpapahayag kami ngayon ng aming paninindigan na ang pag-upo bilang pangulo ay hindi magpapalaya sa pananagutan sa kasaysayan na dapat aminin ng pamilya Marcos ang pandarambong, at dapat ibalik sa mga kinauukulan ang mga ninakaw’
[We’re now declaring our stand that (…)
Son says family has legacy of achievement as he completes clan’s return to power 36 years after father’s ousting
Ferdinand Marcos Jr has promised a government that will deliver for all Filipinos during his inauguration speech, even as he paid tribute to the legacy of his dictator father, whose (…)
Four decades since they experienced grave abuse as political detainees under the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand E. Marcos, three survivors say they cannot accept his son as president
MANILA, Philippines – Ka Rey was only 18 when Martial Law was declared. Three days after its imposition, (…)
The veteran lawyer, former defense chief, and astute politician – who is less than two years away from his 100th birthday – takes on a role that will require cunning and clarity
MANILA, Philippines – At the ripe old age of 88 in 2012, Juan Ponce Enrile, then Senate President, found a revival (…)
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