{"id":70033,"date":"2025-03-11T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/11\/who-is-rodrigo-duterte-the-populist-architect-of-the-philippines-bloody-war-on-drugs-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:37:42","slug":"who-is-rodrigo-duterte-populist-architect-of-philippines-bloody-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70033","title":{"rendered":"Who is Rodrigo Duterte? Populist architect of Philippines\u2019 bloody \u2018war on drugs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor who rose to president bragged about a violent past and revelled in attacks on women and the press<\/p>\n<p>As Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte was notorious for his boasting.<\/p>\n<p>With cowboyish bravado, he bragged about a past when he cruised around on his motorbike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/dec\/14\/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-personally-killed-criminals\">looking for suspected criminals to kill<\/a>, or at age 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/10\/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-says-he-once-stabbed-someone-to-death\">stabbed someone to death<\/a>. In 2016 he joked about missing out on the chance to rape an Australian missionary before she was murdered in jail in 1989.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/11\/who-is-rodrigo-duterte-the-populist-architect-of-the-philippines-bloody-war-on-drugs-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor who rose to president bragged about a violent past and revelled in attacks on women and the pressAs Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte was notorious for his boasting.With cowboyish bravado, he bragged about a past when he cruised around on his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"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":[41,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70033","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\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70034,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70033\/revisions\/70034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}