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Dr. Mary Rose Sancelan: She saved lives and murder was her reward

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Dec 16 11:57 PM

A year and a half since her name and face surfaced on posters red-tagging legal, upright citizens as leaders of Asia’s longest communist insurgency, “vigilantes” rewarded a doctor’s life of service with murder.   Read more »

OPINION: Night falls on our regions, heartlands of this nation

Inday Espina-Varona
Updated as of Aug 29 09:27 AM

As ABS-CBN regional news bureaus turn dark, that inky blackness is the hole that President Duterte punched into the national soul. Read more »

OPINION: Governance by pogrom

Inday Espina-Varona -- scaRRedCat
Posted at Jul 23 02:51 PM

In the latest police gospel on the COVID-19 pandemic, neighbors are told to tattle about kin and friends. This isn’t just unscientific. It is a danger to people’s lives.  Read more »

OPINION: Why we can’t believe platitudes proffered for new anti-terror law

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Jun 03 06:34 PM

When President Rodrigo Duterte and his apologists tut-tut and sneer that only terrorists need to fear the proposed new anti-terror law, the easiest answer is “Drug War”.   Read more »

OPINION: Silence is not an option on ABS-CBN shutdown

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at May 06 03:42 PM

Whatever finger-pointing antics the day holds, one thing is clear: The closure of ABS-CBN leaves a big scar on the landscape where critical, vetted information should flow free, especially in an era of disinformation. Read more »

OPINION: They’re killing aid workers in the Philippines

Inday Espina-Varona -- scaRRedcat
Updated as of May 01 12:55 AM

Masked men barged into Jory Porqia's humble beachside shack in Sto. Nino village, in Iloilo City’s Arevalo district and shot him eight times, targeting his head and other parts of the body. Read more »

OPINION: Gagging truth-tellers in the time of COVID19

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Apr 21 03:57 PM

What the national COVID19 experience has shown, so far, is that centralizing decision-making in the hands of a few people with the same worldview is detrimental to society’s health.   Read more »

Overseas health workers scapegoats for gov’t failure to invest in frontliners

Inday Espina-Varona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 14 10:09 AM

The government has banned the deployment of Filipino health workers abroad, claiming they are needed to beef up a health system “under severe strain” from the novel coronavirus contagion.   Read more »

OPINION: Bankrupt in governance skills, Duterte rolls out his ‘kill’ solution

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Apr 02 05:55 PM

Instead of acknowledging compassionate attempts to mitigate the worst lockdown effects, President Duterte showed anger. Read more »

COVID19 and the least of our brethren

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Mar 15 04:00 AM

The Philippines' capital, Metro Manila, will face a nightmare should community transmission crop up in urban poor communities. Read more »

OPINION: When one man’s whims substitute for the national interest

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 26 09:07 PM

Never since the Marcos days has the Philippine media come under such a systemic attack. Duterte is determined to target an entire profession for subjugation. Read more »

OPINION: As more Diamond Princess Pinoy crew test positive for COVID-19, unrest grows

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 24 09:57 PM

Some of the Filipino crew aboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise vessel where COVID-19 cases have ballooned to more than 600 cases, are asking the Philippine government to bring all workers home, including those who tested positive for the virus after a February 20 mass testing. Read more »

OPINION: Families, crew question protocols on infection-stricken cruise ship

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 21 10:18 PM

Filipinos comprise roughly half of the Diamond Princess’ 1,000-strong workforce. Forty-one have been infected with the COVID-19 and brought to isolation wards in Japan. Read more »

OPINION: Duterte's choices: Why we can't beat drug scourge

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 17 12:02 PM

Candidate Rodrigo Duterte campaigned in 2016 to rid the Philippines of drugs in six months. After almost four years of painting urban alleys red, with thousands of poor drug suspects dead in police operations and "vigilante" executions, Duterte’s program is a failure. Read more »

OPINION: Glaring omission

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 02 10:38 PM

During crises, silence is the enemy. Information dissemination is among the most critical of tasks in the management of emergencies and disasters. Read more »

OPINION: Parlade on judges, the law and the NUJP

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 28 02:14 PM

The slain judge had acquitted in September this year a medical worker accused by the military of masterminding an attack on soldiers. His son had expressed that his father was killed under a "regime that sows terror to those who believe in justice." Read more »

OPINION: Duterte's nightmare—Access to information on drug war

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 27 12:54 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte’s move to fire Vice President Leni Robredo as head of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) invites national and international spotlights to focus on the black holes in a pet program that has snuffed out thousands of lives over 3 years. Read more »

OPINION: The President wasn’t joking—Marawi rehab monitors bare painful truth about slow pace of recovery

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 08 11:08 PM

At the height of the 5-month war in Marawi City between government forces and groups influenced by the Islamic State, Saripada Pacasum Jr. was a “white helmet” first responder. Read more »

OPINION: Churches, local govts appeal for aid to survivors of Mindanao quakes

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 01 11:42 PM

Filipinos celebrating the feast days of souls and saints across the country and abroad can still send aid to hundreds of thousands of Mindanao families struggling in the aftermath of recent strong quakes. Read more »

OPINION: Killings of 7 youths spark tensions in new Muslim autonomous region

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Oct 29 11:51 AM

BARMM officials are conducting a separate probe into reports that 7 youths, including several minors, were massacred by government troops on October 23.  Read more »