{"id":45829,"date":"2022-06-28T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/28\/the-punisher-rodrigo-dutertes-violent-reign-as-philippines-president-to-end"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T04:00:05","slug":"the-punisher-rodrigo-dutertes-violent-reign-as-philippines-president-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45829","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Punisher\u2019: Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s violent reign as Philippines president to end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Duterte\u2019s popularity remains undented among people in poorer areas despite attacks on human rights, rule of law and media<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago, the tough-talking mayor of Davao City, known as \u201cthe Punisher\u201d because of his merciless approach to crime, was on the brink of taking national power in the Philippines. He promised to move power away from Manila elites, tackle poverty, corruption, and drugs. \u201cWhen I become president,\u201d Rodrigo Duterte told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/155019-undertaker-misery-frontlines-philippine-drug-war\/\">one rally<\/a>, \u201cI will order the police to find those people [involved in drugs] and kill them. The funeral parlours will be packed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latter prediction was, at least, correct. When Duterte steps down on 30 June, having reached the end of his term limit, he will leave behind a country in which human rights, the media and rule of law have been weakened, say analysts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/28\/the-punisher-rodrigo-dutertes-violent-reign-as-philippines-president-to-end\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Duterte\u2019s popularity remains undented among people in poorer areas despite attacks on human rights, rule of law and mediaSix years ago, the tough-talking mayor of Davao City, known as \u201cthe Punisher\u201d because of his merciless approach to crime,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45830,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45829\/revisions\/45830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}