Tags: President Aquino

On the Kidapawan massacre and ‘daang matuwid’

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective When people use the phrase “Let them eat brioche (cake),” quoting a French queen – widely believed to be Queen Marie-Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, but later discovered to be Queen Marie Therese, wife of Louis XIV – who uttered the phrase in response to the clamor of hungry…

By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Outraged Filipinos trapped in traffic, trying to make both ends meet, and appalled at the unremitting corruption in government, have been cursing the Aquino bureaucracy, which teems with people who seem to have been chosen for their posts not only because of their closeness to their boss,…