Chronicling the drug war
In May 2016, just days after Rodrigo Duterte won the presidential election, my then Metro editor Volt Contreras and I sat down to discuss what was coming. Reports of “pasalubong”—a code or bodies left on the streets—were emerging under “Oplan Rody,” an anticrime campaign from Duterte’s years as mayor of Davao City. I told Volt […]...Keep on reading: Chronicling the drug war
