Patricia Evangelista, a Filipino Journalist: “Duterte Promised that the Terrible Would Become Something Everyday and He Didn’t Lie: He Killed His Own Citizens”

Rodrigo Duterte came to power in 2016 and, as he had promised, he got to work with his great government work: ending drugs in the Philippines, liquidating drug addicts and erasing all drug traffickers on the map. “There are not many world leaders who say: ‘I will kill my own citizens’ and then fulfill them,” recalls Patricia Evangelista (Manila, 1985), a journalist who closely followed Duterte’s brutal hunt as a reporter for the news agency Rapp…