Back Channel by Alejandro Del Rosario
2016 race wide open
News reports of controversial Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte mulling a run in the 2016 presidential race has thrown the political...
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POPE FRANCIS IS ATTUNED TO THE PLIGHT OF OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS Pope Francis left us three recurring themes in homilies...
Speaking for the poor
So much for President Aquino’s “kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap” campaign slogan. Pope Francis in his five-day apostolic visit to...
Striking the right chord
Without directly referring to some of our errant officials, visiting Pope Francis urged “rejection of any form of corruption that...
So, who’s being ‘cute’?
It’s difficult not to react to President Benigno S. Aquino III’ s remarks even if one tries hard to just...
The 2016 senatorial race
This early, the ruling Liberal Party and the opposition United Nationalist Alliance have discounted the fielding of common candidates as...
Sangley airport project
The news report of the government’s plan to develop a new international airport at the former US naval base in...
The year ahead
The year that just ended was another annus horribilis, meaning a horrible year in Latin and has nothing to do...
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