{"id":131823,"date":"2017-11-16T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=131823"},"modified":"2017-11-16T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:25:33","slug":"usd-2-m-aid-proves-trumps-support-to-ph-drug-war-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/16\/usd-2-m-aid-proves-trumps-support-to-ph-drug-war-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"USD 2-M aid proves Trump&#8217;s support to PH drug war: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131481\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131481\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Harry-Roque-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday thanked President Donald Trump for the USD 2 million assistance the United States provided to the Philippine government\u2019s anti-drug campaign, saying it clearly showed that the US President supports President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s war on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>A White House statement released Wednesday stated that \u201cTrump announced USD 2 million to support drug demand reduction programs in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough it was announced belatedly, President Duterte will appreciate this commitment to the war against drug,\u201d Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said during a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>But even then, he noted that it would have been better if President Trump made the announcement himself during the bilateral meeting with Duterte on the sidelines of the just concluded 31st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, the Palace official pointed out that Trump\u2019s gesture manifested his open support to Duterte\u2019s war against illegal drugs, an issue that has been the subject of harsh criticisms from various human rights groups due to allegations of human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings (EJKs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat proves without a doubt that the US President supports the war on drugs. Why would he otherwise give USD 2 million to this cause if he thinks it\u2019s not being implemented correctly?\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday thanked President Donald Trump for the USD 2 million assistance the United States provided to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[12253,9869,15350,978,2444],"class_list":["post-131823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-war-on-drugs","tag-donald-trump","tag-harry-roque-jr","tag-malacanang","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-jose-cielito-reganit","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131823","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=131823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}