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Wrong leader EDITORIAL 03/01/2011

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Wrong leader

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03/01/2011

With the country sinking further, the Philippines must be a cursed nation.

We have the wrong President at this time of global political turmoil and one, moreover, who is not only incompetent, but also has a set of advisers who appear incapable of even anticipating serious global and local problems that are likely to arise, given the situation rocking the world.

Noynoy Aquino focuses on saving the lives of three convicted Filipino drug mules sentenced to death by the Chinese high court, but does much too little, and too late, in evacuating the Filipino workers in Libya, where a bloody civil war has erupted.

For weeks, the problem of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Libya was already being pointed out when the first sign of unrest and state violence burst on the Libyan scene, yet Noynoy himself had announced publicly that there would be no mass evacuation and as yet and only voluntary repatriation, with his aides saying that their employers were taking care of the evacuations and safety of their Filipino workers, which was hardly the truth.... MORE

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