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From the Philippines’ Marcos, Lassitude in Human Rights

Three months in, a passive president

Our Correspondent
Oct 13, 2022
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From a human rights standpoint, the 106-day-old administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. seems to be on cruise control, coasting into the future pretty much on the policies put in place by Bongbong’s rough-hewn predecessor Rodrigo Duterte. To those watching carefully for warnings of bloodthirstiness inherited from Marcos’s father, one…

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