Philippines’ President Duterte Earns his Cowboy Spurs
Just six weeks into the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, the world is discovering with a good deal of horror that the Philippines is getting what he promised: hundreds of deaths of people who may or not be connected to the drug world, at the hands of death squads who are killing, often with little evidence.
That has earned Duterte the approval of 91 percen…
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