Along with the health care sector, count the drivers, conductors, and other members of the transport sector among those that have been hit hardest by the pandemic lockdowns. Their distress appears to be never-ending: Last year, at the height of the strictest lockdown that severely limited public mobility, drivers of public utility vehicles (PUVs) were forced to take to the empty streets and resort to begging after they lost their livelihood. This week, bus workers
Kleptocracy, according to Wikipedia, “is a government whose corrupt leaders use political power to appropriate the wealth of their nation, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.” From Dec. 30, 1965, when Ferdinand Marcos became our president, to June 30, 2022, when a new president will have been elected, it will be exactly 56.5 years. This is a dark period of kleptocracy in our history from dictator Marcos to our worst president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte. In between Marcos and Duterte, we had Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and Benigno Aquino III, all
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