Was there something in the air around April Fool’s Day that caused people in the Duterte administration—led by the President, of course—to run off their mouths? First, there was President Duterte himself in another late-night peroration warning common folk, and particularly the Left, that he would order “my soldiers, my police” to shoot at them if they dared to “disobey” lawful orders. Earlier that day, residents of a poor neighborhood in Quezon City had massed on
In March 1902, it was the fourth year of the Philippine-American War. Many towns in Luzon, hamletted by the Americans, suffered from famine. In Isabela, Emilio Aguinaldo would soon be captured. In Batangas, Miguel Malvar felt forced to surrender soon, so that rice could be planted in May. To top
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