The pro-Duterte Congress also threatened not to renew the franchise of the biggest TV network ABS-CBN, which had allegedly refused to air his political advertisements before the 2016 election. The same

But what Digong lacks in stature, he more than makes up for in garrulous feistiness, and, once he starts, he doesn’t stop. What attracts attention to him is not really charisma; it’s more a macabre fascination

3 TWO SMOKING BARRELS At the vanguard of the People Power Revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos was the spiritual leader of Filipino Catholics, the late Archbishop of Manila, wickedly named Cardinal

The absent parents, the horsewhip, the crucifix, and the child-abusing priest; the paramilitary bodyguards, the disciplinarian Mayor Liaños, and the simple fact that he was the governor’s son, proved a

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‘My mother did the whipping, too. Flogging! Today you can’t discipline your child any more. If you spank him, they call it child abuse! What child abuse? What was my mother supposed to do with him?’ ‘One

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For decades, the Philippines has lived under the shadow of corruption, political patronage, and a culture of violence that seeps from the highest levels of government down to the smallest barangays. But