Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Rodrigo Duterte: A new era in the Philippines (Richard Javad Heydarian, Al Jazeera)

Duterte's election was a polite, democratic slap on the face of the oligarchic establishment, which has ravaged a highly promising nation for decades, writes Heydarian [Reuters]

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born," Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci once said. Three decades after the downfall of the Marcos dictatorship, which left deep and lasting wounds on an impoverished nation, the Filipino people are once again clamouring for "change".

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/rodrigo-duterte-era-philippines-160511101236269.html

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