Until 2016, the Philippines in Southeast Asia has been at a high annual crime rate, especially the drug trade is particularly rampant, the Philippines as the gateway to Southeast Asia, every year countless drugs from here into the world, but it is such a country that is basically rotten, in the May 2016 presidential election ushered in its hero - Rodrigo Duterte.
1. My father of the governor
Duterte was born in 1945 in Davao Province, Philippines, his father is the governor of Davao Province, for the Philippines such a door valve country, as a descendant of Duterte can be said to be born with a golden key, so he also became a local famous person like many door valve children when he was a child.
At the age of 16, during a brawl over a conflict, Duterte managed to send a teenager to God with a knife and to jail simply because he "looked at you more in the crowd." Of course, Duterte, who was the son of the door valve and the son of the governor, was soon released. Later, Duterte was insulted by his classmates at school, and when you thought that this was another fight and brawl, Duterte chose a more simple way, he drew a pistol from his waist and shot it, almost sending his classmates to god.
It can only be said that it is fortunate that Duterte's father is the governor of the province, otherwise in terms of Duterte's growth trajectory, his probability of becoming a street gangster is much greater than that of becoming president, which can also be seen in the Philippines where the door valve is rooted, the constitution has become an optional thing, and it is completely unconstrained on the door valve family.
So even though Duterte's way of "communicating" with his classmates was so straightforward, he successfully stayed in school and entered Lysim University on the recommendation of the big guy, and here, Duterte successfully met a person who would make a major change in his life, the famous communist revolutionary in the Philippines, Sison.
As a student of Xi Song, Duterte was exposed to a large number of communist ideas during his college years, and it can be said that he plunged into the sea of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought and never returned, and in these ideas he mastered the most important weapon of his future ruling career - people's war.
Lysim University
2. Take office in Davao
In 1986, Philippine President Marcos stepped down, don't look at marcos and Marx's name is only one word apart, this Marcos is a full-fledged embezzler, under his rule the Philippines foreign debt once reached 26.5 billion US dollars, and because of the nepotism during his reign, resulting in a chaos in the Philippines after his downfall, the door valve nobles everywhere took this opportunity to start cultivating their own cronies and self-appointed officials. As the son of the governor, Duterte naturally also had a "fiefdom" and began his first stop on the political road, taking office in Davao City and becoming the interim mayor.
At that time, Davao City, although there were more than 1 million people, but here is basically a zone that is not bound by the law, especially the drug dealers are extremely large, and a few years after Duterte took office, the crime rate of Davao City is comparable to the stock in the economic crisis, which is called a cliff-like decline, once became the safest city in the Philippines, and the security is good enough to rank in the top ten in the whole world, so how did Duterte do it? Quite simply, kill!
After coming to power, Duterte retained the straightforward "communication" style of his youth, only this time it was used to communicate with criminals. He paid for his own guns, formed the famous "Davao Death Squad", personally led the team to clean up the crime problems in the streets, and the criminals he caught, some were thrown to feed the crocodiles, some were buried directly in the soil, the criminals met Duterte, and the shooting was the best ending.
Caught drug dealers
At that time, the chaotic situation in the Philippines also made the higher-level government fail to pay attention to Duterte's friendly communication with the criminals, so every evening after the curfew, Duterte would ride his Own Harley motorcycle and carry a rifle to personally patrol the streets to see which lucky criminal would be killed by him today.
Of course, this alone is not enough to let Duterte stand on the ground, after the crime rate was reduced, Duterte began to develop the economy, Davao City originally had a high-quality seaport, but the drugs that were previously shipped ashore from here have become goods for economic development, under Duterte's series of policies to attract foreign investment, the economy of Davao City has also developed rapidly, and the local people have seen the new mayor, killing hemp bandits to engage in the economy, naturally they are very supportive of him, and his family's status is also rising in Davao City.
Philippine ports
Although the situation in Davao City is getting better and better, but the rest of the Philippines is still in chaos, after all, not every place has a Duterte, before Duterte came to power, the president of the Philippines was Aquino III, compared to Marcos, this is not much better, to please the United States to provoke China, to embezzlement and sell officials, here is also to lament the excellent political environment of the Philippines, what kind of people are really likely to be president, But fortunately, our fierce big brother is about to go north to participate in the presidential election, and the Philippines will also usher in its savior.
3. "Son of the Beach"
In 2015, the last year of Aquino III's administration, a shocking event occurred in the Philippines: 44 SWAT officers were ambushed and killed by drug lords, and the reason was that some of the national ministerial cadres involved in the command betrayed the news, which showed that the government at that time had rotted into the bones, and in a state of shock, the 70-year-old Duterte filmed the case and went north to participate in the presidential election.
When Duterte announced the news, it immediately caused an uproar in the Philippines, if in other countries, killing people must be a political black spot for the president, but for Du Lao, this is completely a political achievement. In his speech, Duterte sent messages to the criminals, "I'd like to send you to God now" and "I'm standing here, and if you don't come and kill me, when I become president, none of you will want to run." And he declared that crime in the Philippines would be solved within six months.
People who had been tortured by criminals heard of his "excellent results" in Davao City and wanted one vote to be used as two, so in May 2016 Duterte was successfully elected president of the Philippines. After his election, he did not renege on his word, he believed that the people's problems should be solved by the people, and the key to solving the people's problems was to solve the problems of the people, so there was such a decree: the police have the right to freely execute drug dealers, and the people can join this team, and even get bonuses after killing drug dealers and criminals.
After the order was issued, the Philippines was transformed, directly from a drug dealer's paradise to a hell of criminals, more than 6,000 people died in the streets in just six months, and for a time the criminals in the Philippines were in danger, and in order not to be killed, they had to run to the police station to turn themselves in, so that the prison at that time could not hold so many prisoners.
Crowded prisons
Of course, Duterte himself, as a member of the door valve family, is well aware of the dangers of collusion between criminals and door valves, so he uproots their protective umbrella while fighting crime, and the mayor of Sanmian City is wiped out by Duterte due to collusion with criminals.
So is Duterte's approach good or bad? Fortunately, after Two years in office, Duterte has reduced crime by at least 80 percent; nor is it bad, because there will be a lot of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases during this period. Dialectics tells us that nothing is absolute, but in terms of results alone, Duterte's approach is not necessarily correct, but it does fit well in the Philippines at the time, as evidenced by his 90% approval rating.
Although the people support Duterte, his political enemies and the international community use this as a means of attack, believing him to be too brutal, and the United States points out that Duterte violated "humanitarianism". At that time, U.S. President Barack Obama wanted to discuss the human rights of criminals with Duterte, but our Dugo was very rude, calling Obama "Son of the Beach" and claiming that "no one can point fingers at me except the Filipino people." Not only did it sound good, at the East Asia Summit in September 2016, Duterte did not discuss the South China Sea issue that the United States was most concerned about, but instead produced a report that indigenous Filipinos were killed by American soldiers, angrily saying that our ancestors were killed by them, and they wanted to talk to us about human rights. Since then, Philippine foreign policy has changed from being "pro-American" to greeting Obama's mother without a problem, and has begun to fully cooperate with China.
Including Obama, Duterte has no one to scold, unincorporated Ban Ki-moon accused him of killing innocents, saying that Ban Ki-moon is also a little idiot and the United Nations simply can't do anything; Pope Francis came to the Philippines, Duterte thought his fans were so crazy that they blocked traffic, so he gave Pope Francis a copy of the nickname "Son of the Beach".
However, Duterte's various policies, although greatly reducing the crime problem in the Philippines, have not fundamentally solved the high unemployment rate and the gap between the rich and the poor in the Philippines, so why should the Filipino people support him in this way? Because for them, Duterte's words and deeds are visible, he is like a beam of light piercing through the thick miasma that envelops the Philippines, bringing hope to the people to a new life.
Now, Duterte is 77 years old, he announced that he will withdraw from the 2022 election, Duterte's approach, can be said to be for the future policy implementation to open up a highway, in a peaceful environment with a low crime rate, a new leader who can take the Philippines to the high speed, usher in economic development is what the Philippines needs, Duterte has paved the way, who will lead the Philippines to take off in the future, we have to wait and see.