Duterte's Drug War - the full story

Описание: A visit to Duterte's Philippines in 2019 turned into this personal deep dive edited during the pandemic. In March 2025, Rodrigo Duterte was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, a 30-minute drive from where I live.

Duterte was the president of the Philippines between 2016 and 2022. By the end of his term, we started to see the net value of his attempt to use violence to change people. The main goal of this trip was getting written interviews. Cameras can be an attention magnet, so it was often off.

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Timeline
00:00 THE FILIPINO DRUG WAR
02:30 VIENNA
05:55 NIGHTCRAWLERS
12:30 DEMONSTRATION
14:20 THE METH MYTH
17:00 LSD PUSHER
20:00 A QUICK HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES
21:30 CHARLES BRENT
24:15 EXTORTION OVER DRUGS
27:25 MARCOS
30:25 THE VIOLENCE OF RODRIGO DUTERTE
36:00 THE ELECTION OF DUTERTE
41:40 THE POWER OF BEING ANTI DRUGS
44:15 RUGBY BOYS
48:30 EFFECTS OF PROHIBITION
50:00 OPPRESSIVE VIOLENCE
56:30 POLICE CRIMES?
1:03:20 THE DRUG ‘ADDICTS’
1:11:20 A QUIET NIGHT
1:14:00 RIPPLES OF THE DRUGS WAR
1:17:20 DOES THIS WAR WORK?
1:19:40 FINAL THOUGHTS