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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Nov. 19, said he decided against including Vice President Leni Robredo in the Cabinet because he does not trust her. “Ang problema ko kay Robredo… Marami na siyang pinagsasabi. If that is the way her mouth behaves there can be no position for her,” the President said. Robredo has been vocal about the government’s war on drugs. Earlier, she figured in a video where she criticized the […]
https://youtu.be/gtHd8siAZnE (Eagle News) – A repackaging or “retooling” of the Philippine government’s current anti-illegal drugs campaign is now in the works after the meeting of Vice-President Leni Robredo with the Philippine National Police (PNP) The “tokhang” operations which had been linked negatively to drug killings will just be “retooled”, but the government’s drug war would not be stopped or removed, officials said. “Ang isa sa kanyang suggestion din is retooling on how we are going […]
(Eagle News) – Vice-President Leni Robredo said that officials of the United States are fully supportive of the Philippine government’s war against drugs and would be willing to give any help if needed for the campaign’s success. In her statement given after meeting with the US officials on Wednesday, Nov. 13, Robredo, the recently designated anti-illegal drugs czar by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, said that the various representatives of the US agencies she had […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine National Police (PNP) is ready for any changes in the Philippine government’s drug war that would be instituted by Vice President Leni Robredo now that she had been given the full authority to lead the anti-illegal drugs campaign by President Rodrigo Duterte. PNP officer-in-charge, Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa, said that the PNP is looking forward to an intensified anti-illegal drugs operation and rehabilitation of drug users with Robredo as […]
(Eagle News) – After accepting the post as the country’s new anti-illegal drug czar, Vice President Leni Robredo has changed her tune and now wants the United Nations not to interfere yet in the Philippine government’s drug war. After convening her first meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), Robredo said that the Philippines should be given the opportunity to fight and solve its illegal drug problem. “I have said […]
(Eagle News) – Vice- President Leni Robredo conducted her first meeting with the different members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) on Friday, Nov. 8, and said that it had been “really a listening exercise” for her. “Kasi before today, I did not have access to the data that I had today,” she said. Robredo thanked all the efforts of the agencies under ICAD for their efforts to wage the war against drugs. […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government will now have a renewed and strengthened full approach on the drug war now that Vice-President Leni Robredo has accepted the position as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), as various government agencies vowed to fully support her. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Robredo is now part of the cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte, and could attend all cabinet meetings, especially those related to the drug […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, Nov. 6, welcomed Vice President Leni Robredo’s acceptance of President Rodrigo Duterte’s designation of her as co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the next step was for Robredo to see Duterte so she would know what the job specifically entails. Panelo said in a television interview that she was also welcome to join the Cabinet meeting today. Earlier, Senator Francis Pangilinan, Cong. Edcel […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo is “being set up to fail” with her designation as co-chair of the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said on Tuesday, Nov. 5. In a statement, Lagman, a partymate of Robredo, said the post was, after all, “vastly different” from the post of drug czar President Rodrigo Duterte previously offered. He said the vice president “is being thrown into a composite of an inter-agency […]
by Joshua Howat Berger MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — US President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico “wage war” on its cartels after three women and six children from an American Mormon community were murdered in an area notorious for drug traffickers. Gunmen ambushed the members of the LeBaron family — a large clan of Mormons who emigrated to Mexico in the late 19th century — as they traveled on a rural road Monday […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo is now the co-chair of the Inter-agency committee on anti-illegal drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte himself designated her to the position, based on an Oct. 31 letter signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and which was transmitted to Robredo’s office. Duterte’s move came after Robredo said the drug war had failed because it had failed to curb the number of drug addicts in the country. Earlier, Duterte said he was ready […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo “is always ready to help,” her camp said on Friday, Nov. 1. Barry Gutierrez, Robredo’s spokesperson, said, however, that what she “will not stand for is being made a scapegoat for all the shortcomings of the ‘drug war’ for the past three and a half years.” “This admin made the impossible promise to end crime and drugs in six months, and if they are now being called to account for […]
