Is President Duterte taking the Philippines and the region in a new direction?”Trillanes did not understand the question. Sackur quoted Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez to establish a link between the Maute rebellion and the drug war. Trillanes sought to dispute this portrait of the drug situation by offering his own figures. When Sackur described how DU30 during the election campaign spoke of crushing the drug trade through the drug war, Trillanes dismissed government figures as just campaign rhetoric. The country’s real drug situation is far from what DU30 has described it.

Source: Manila Times June 23, 2017 15:00 UTC