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Duterte and the New Oligarchs

Attack on telecoms providers could aid a crony

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Jul 30, 2020
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s use of his State of the Nation Address this week to attack the country’s two major telecommunications providers, Globe, majority-owned by the Ayala Group, and Smart of the Metro-Pacific group, will go down as yet another of the self-inflicted wounds from which the Philippines has long suffered.

For sure, the nation …

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