Duterte’s Teflon Starting to Fade?
Confluence of ugly events cuts into Philippine president’s aura of invincibility
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The ambush and murder of four Philippine military intelligence soldiers by national police at a roadblock on the southern island of Jolo on June 30 has suddenly cast the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte in a new and unbecoming light, exacerbated by the government’s inability to get on top of the continuing fight against the Covid-19 coronavir…
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