By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao City With the capture, Aquino said he had tasked the AFP to reassess if the country can still afford to send a number of people, by the thousands, for the deployments everywhere in the world.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “He’s worthy of emulation as a leader who inspired his people to wage a Bolivarian revolution that truly empowered the majority of the Venezuelans who are poor and put a stop to the elites’ greed and plunder of Venezuela’s rich-oil resources.” Atty. Carlos Zarate, second nominee, Bayan Muna Party
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today With threats of ground invasion of Gaza by Israeli forces, Zarate said, “This will surely escalate the war and would only mean that more innocent Palestinian lives will be sacrificed.”
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today For lawyer Carlos Zarate, Bayan Muna Party’s second nominee, Obama’s win “only means a continuation and perpetuation of the same policies that for decades spawned a continuing state of impunity in poor countries” like the Philippines.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Karapatan-Socsksargends, however, said Bravo was lying. What happened, he said, was an attack by Philippine Army troops against hapless lumads who are opposed to the operation of foreign and large-scale mining SMI-Xstrata, in their ancestral land.