In with the new and out with the old ?
Just looks like old re – runs of 80’s soap operas with added repression and violence and especially to the poor the disadvantaged who are already being exploited in their misery by people who sell them the cheapest and worst of drugs
They arrested Duterte this past week but Marcos is cut from the same cloth. The ICC’s arrest warrant is a very convenient tool for Marcos to shift Duterte off the map
Since taking office in 2022, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has often spoken about winding down the bloody and brutal drug war initiated by his predecessor, former President Rodrigo Duterte. In theory, Duterte’s “drug war,” which he had launched upon taking office in 2016, was a zero-tolerance counternarcotics approach. In practice, Duterte encouraged the police and tacitly encouraged nonstate vigilantes to kill anyone involved in the drug trade.
This policy led to widespread extrajudicial killings of anyone who could plausibly be linked to using or selling drugs—even if that “plausibility” was based on someone being informed on due to a personal grudge—and turned parts of many Philippine cities into nightly killing zones. As the New York Times noted, rights groups estimate that as many as 30,000 people have been killed in the drug war to date.
As a way of courting the United States and other democracies, Marcos—who hates Duterte and offers a much smoother veneer than his wild and profane predecessor—pledged to end these abuses, while also promising significant changes in many areas of Philippine domestic and foreign policy.
