How Duterte Harry’s legacy of terror lives on in the PhilippinesSomething momentous is building in the Philippines. Thirty-six years after the kleptocratic despot, Ferdinand Marcos, fled into exile with his family and 300 crates of loot aboard a US airforce transport plane, his only son, Ferdinand Marcos Junior… May 08 22May 08, 2022Article at The Spectator
They coughed, they danced, they drank beer: life as a paying prisoner at a Thai quarantine hotelWinter visitors must spend two weeks in an expensive but inhospitable “hospitel” if they are found to be infected with Covid-19, as Jonathan Miller found I wasn’t actually infected when I checked in to the Covid “leper colony” somewhere east of… Jan 22 22January 22, 2022Article at thetimes.co.uk
Inside Rodrigo Duterte’s raging war on drugsRaphael is on the run. He is a softly spoken, middle-aged man of wiry build – and he is wired. The friend who put me in contact with him said that Raphael had been in this hyper-adrenalised state for months, ever since he had learned he was on the… Jul 27 18July 27, 2018Article at British GQ
Duterte Harry's drugs war: how one family was destroyedIt’s approaching 5am on a Sunday morning before Christmas, and in the Santo Niño district of Pasay city, Metro Manila, Domingo Mañosca is already up and about. His heavily pregnant wife, Elizabeth, is still fast asleep. Sprawled beside her, in a… Jun 10 18June 10, 2018Article at the Guardian
The republic of fearIn a disappointed country, where the promise of a half-forgotten people’s revolution had been squandered, and memories of dictatorship and Imelda’s shoes had faded, they were finally ready for another strongman. The Age of Anger was dawning in the… May 25 18May 25, 2018Article at The Australian
Syria's torture machineBetween bursts of machine-gun fire and the crump of explosions – unmuffled in crisp mountain air – the starry sky above the Syrian frontier offers ethereal distraction. It's 3am and the town of Tal Kalakh, less than two miles to the north – just… Dec 13 11December 13, 2011Article at the Guardian
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