The US strategy to bring down the Bolivarian government of Nicolas Maduro was to select Juan Guaido as a self-proclaimed president coming out of the defunct national assembly of Venezuela.
And is cheap rice from abroad even unlimited and forever?
The peace panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) paid tribute to NDFP peace consultant Randy Malayao who was killed by unidentified gunmen in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya (a province north of Manila) while he was sleeping inside bus last January 30.
We would have let it slide but the contrived tale peddled by one Col. Benedict Arevalo, commander of the Army’s 303rd Brigade, that the two armed military men who persistently tailed our convoy of NUPL lawyers and clients ftom people’s organizations last Sarurday just takes the cake.
Imelda Marcos’ conviction for several counts of graft by a Philippine court and sentencing her to imprisonment for multiple years, forfeiting her bail, and ordering the issuance – not the arrest – of a warrant of arrest, was so surreal.
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today lambasted the Senate of the Philippines’ approval on third and final reading of the rice tariffication bill or Senate Bill 1998 that would impose tariffication on 35 to 50% tariff on rice imports in lieu of quantitative restrictions. “Next to China, the Philippines is now the world’s top 2 rice importer. Rice tariffication is the end of local rice industry as we know it, unless we fight and take the power back into the hands of farmers and food producers.”
Italy hosts the largest population of Overseas Fiipino Workers in Western Europe according to Italian Forign Affairs statistics. The Italian Ministry of Interior reports of 167,859 total number of documented Filipinos scattered in Italian regions, of which 72,599 are males and 95,260 are females.
The killing of our beloved, adorably husky-voiced zany, Ben has distressed all of us, battle-scarred and seemingly undaunted and impervious to threats and dangers while courageously, even at times audaciously, running against the tide of daily injustice, oppression and repression in defense of the defenseless and persecuted.