[Pastilan] Double-whammy Wednesday for the Dutertes
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It was unmistakably a double-whammy Wednesday for the Dutertes.
Just as the House justice committee found itself circling what we had long suspected — that the blood-soaked “war on drugs” waged by Rodrigo Duterte against the small man bore all the hallmarks of a grand diversion, a brutal smokescreen behind which the monopolization and centralization of narco-politics could proceed from 2016 to mid-2022 — the family was suffering an equally, if not more consequential, reverse on a sterner stag
Just as the House justice committee found itself circling what we had long suspected — that the blood-soaked “war on drugs” waged by Rodrigo Duterte against the small man bore all the hallmarks of a grand diversion, a brutal smokescreen behind which the monopolization and centralization of narco-politics could proceed from 2016 to mid-2022 — the family was suffering an equally, if not more consequential, reverse on a sterner stag
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