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Ghost of the Marcos dictatorship hangs over Rodrigo Duterte
News, Bloomberg News, Published on 16/06/2016
» Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidency in a blaze of hard-line rhetoric -- an outsider who will stamp out crime and corruption. But his power base is tied to the nation's oldest political camps, including that of ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Election brings unneeded change
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/05/2016
» Like Donald Trump, to whom he's often compared, the Philippines' apparent president-elect Rodrigo Duterte won over voters with a crude and bombastic persona — or, if you will, his big mouth. What the country he may soon inherit needs most, however, is a steady hand.