Easy street for Mar
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Noynoy and his de facto president, defeated VP candidate Mar Roxas must have thought that, by sending VP Jojo Binay to China, he would have landed with a big, fat egg on his face.
After all, all reports, whether from the country or China, always stressed that there is nothing that can be done for the three Filipino drug mules who were slated to face the firing squad Monday.
That would have been a marked failure — especially in foreign relations — for Binay if he had come home with the cadavers of the three Filipinos.
While Binay did not succeed in getting the clemency he sought for the three Filipinos, he was able to get the Chinese officials even in the Supreme Court to bend a bit — and stay the execution for a later date, because executed they will have to be, since China would lose face and start bending their laws everytime foreign officials whose citizens are also so situated in China and its whole justice system will be derailed..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110220com2.html
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