Category: Press statements

Duterte and Panelo belong to my same senior age bracket and are not any much younger than I am.

the tyrannical regime refuses to release the political prisoners and continues to accumulate them on trumped-up charges of common crimes

Legal organizations of various sectors are first red-tagged and falsely accused of being “communists” and “terrorists”

Why the co-chairmanship over something owned exclusively by the Philippines, which ought to hire an exploration and development company that does not belong to a country which refuses to respect the final judgment of the Permanent Arbitration Commission under the UNCLOS?

China has succeeded in at least putting at par its false claim of ownership of almost the entire China Sea, including the Philippine EEZ, with the solid and final judgment of the Permanent Arbitration Court in favor of the Philippines in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

The Duterte ruling clique benefits from two kinds of relations. First are the official relations to the Chinese government, the banks and corporations. Second are the criminal relations with the Chinese triads and the smuggling and gambling syndicates.

It is Duterte who is clearly culpable for the termination of the peace negotiations in contempt of the people’s desire for these

Increased police presence and patrols on campuses to intimidate the book-carrying teachers and students will further reduce the number of police from their previous haunts, promote criminality off the campuses and give more space to the revolutionary forces in the battlefield.

But the aforesaid repressive tactics of the tyrannical Duterte regime achieve the opposite

He is aggravating them and escalating the exploitation and oppression of the people.