{"id":120789,"date":"2017-10-02T05:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120789"},"modified":"2017-10-02T05:58:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:58:26","slug":"duterte-warns-us-of-need-to-cooperate-vs-illegal-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/02\/duterte-warns-us-of-need-to-cooperate-vs-illegal-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte warns US of need to cooperate vs illegal drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101773\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101773\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-4.jpg\" alt=\"President Rodrigo Duterte congratulated newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who was sworn into office Wednesday. (Photo: TOTO LOZANO\/Presidential Photo)\" width=\"840\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-4.jpg 840w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-4-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Duterte-4-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Duterte (Photo: TOTO LOZANO\/Presidential Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte has warned that the United States will become \u201ca sorry state\u201d if it does not cooperate with the Philippines on the \u201cserious matter\u201d of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 56th anniversary of the Philippine Constitution Association (PHILCONSA) held at the Manila Hotel on September 26, 2017, President Duterte said the Philippines has become a transshipment point for methamphetamine hydrochloride (locally called shabu).<\/p>\n<p>He said the drugs come from a regionally-based syndicate and are made to pass through the Philippines on their way to other countries, including the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines today is a client state of the Bamboo Triad. They have taken over the operations\u2026 (The) Philippines is a transshipment of shabu to America, and it behooves upon America to work closely with the Republic of the Philippines, especially on this serious matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Duterte said the shabu is cooked in trawlers while at sea and are thrown overboard to be retrieved by drug dealers, using GPS technology to track them.<\/p>\n<p>He said the US government must cooperate with the Philippines in order to put a stop to the illegal drug trade in both countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of these days, America would be a sorry state (if it does not cooperate),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of illegal drugs is important to Filipinos who see it as a major stumbling block to development. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center has shown broad support among Filipinos for President Duterte\u2019s war on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The survey showed that around 78 percent of Filipinos approve of Duterte\u2019s handling of the illegal drugs issue, with 62 percent believing the government\u2019s campaign was making progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte has warned that the United States will become \u201ca sorry state\u201d if it does not cooperate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[4395,25732,25731,2444,3816,406],"class_list":["post-120789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-illegal-drugs","tag-methamphetamine-hydrochloride","tag-philippine-constitution-association","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-shabu","tag-united-states","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}