The day after insulting Obama, Duterte released a statement expressing regret that his comment “came across as a personal attack on the U.S. President.” In his outburst, Duterte had used the Tagalog phraseputang ina, which means, literally, “your mother is a whore.” But it is also us...
On Oct. 16, 2015, on the last day of filing for certificates of candidacy, Duterte did not show up. Martin Dino filed his intent to run for president under Duterte's party, PDP-Laban. On Oct. 27, PDP-Laban made it official that Duterte will substitute as the party's presidential bet...
Duterte has also threatened to break the Philippines’ decades-old alliance with the US, its former colonial ruler, because of Washington’s criticism over the crime war. Obama has urged Duterte to respect the rule of law and fight crime “the right way”. While abusing Obama, he has compla...
"All of you who are into drugs, you sons of bitches, I will really kill you," Duterte told a huge cheering crowd Saturday in his final campaign rally in Manila. "I have no patience, I have no middle ground, either you kill me or I will kill you idiots." Philippine president...
Rosie Perper
“The scary thing is that for every day that passes there will be more deaths. Can we take this for six years?” he asks, referring to the standard presidential term. He says there are strong bonds between him and other crime beat photographers. ...