{"id":160753,"date":"2018-04-20T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=160753"},"modified":"2018-04-20T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T10:54:00","slug":"de-lima-makes-it-to-fortunes-worlds-50-greatest-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/20\/de-lima-makes-it-to-fortunes-worlds-50-greatest-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"De Lima makes it to Fortune&#8217;s World\u2019s 50 Greatest Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99503\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/16266048_1921943084702904_2528065286807520945_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99503\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/16266048_1921943084702904_2528065286807520945_n.jpg\" alt=\"De Lima is facing a case for violation of Article 150 of the Revised Penal Code for disobedience to summons issued by the national assembly, its committee or subcommittees. (Photo: Leila De Lima\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/16266048_1921943084702904_2528065286807520945_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/16266048_1921943084702904_2528065286807520945_n-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/16266048_1921943084702904_2528065286807520945_n-768x613.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: De Lima was ranked as 39th in the New York-based business magazine&#8217;s list which included country presidents, CEOs, and other leaders (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/leiladelimaofficial\/photos\/a.1679197948977420.1073741830.1658419084388640\/1921943084702904\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/leiladelimaofficial\/\">Leila De Lima\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Described as Fortune Magazine\u2019s \u201cannual list of thinkers, speakers, and doers who are stepping up to meet today\u2019s challenges,\u201d the magazine featured detained Senator Leila De Lima in its World\u2019s 50 Greatest Leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s hard-line policies against drug dealers are polarizing globally, but in the Philippines, they\u2019ve faced little dissent. De Lima who headed a committee investigating hundreds of extrajudicial killings under Duterte\u2019s leadership has been a noble exception,\u201d the magazine wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast February, she was arrested and jailed for as-yet-untried crimes, but imprisonment hasn\u2019t stopped the firebrand from continuing to speak out publicly,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima ranked 39<sup>th<\/sup> in the New York-based business magazine\u2019s list which included country presidents, chief executive officers (CEOs), and other leaders. She is the only personality from the Philippines to make it on the list.<\/p>\n<p>The students that fought against gun violence in relation to shootings, Gates Foundation Founders Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, The #MeToo Movement, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier topped the 50 Greatest Leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, De Lima, one of Duterte\u2019s staunch critics is detained in Camp Crame. She was arrested in February last year for drug charges filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) \u2013 a department she used to be the secretary of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Karangalan ko po na ako ay makulong sa mga pinaglalaban ko po\u2026 Inosente po ako. Wala pong katotohanan, pawing kasinungalingan po ang mga pinaparating nila sa\u2019kin na ako\u2019y \u2018di umano nakinabang sa droga\u2026 Lalabas po ang katotohanan sa tamang panahon <\/em>(It is an honor to be in jail for something that I am fighting for\u2026 I am innocent. There is no truth in that, those allegations that I benefitted from drugs are lies\u2026 The truth will come out in the right time),\u201d the female senator said on the day of her detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Described as Fortune Magazine\u2019s \u201cannual list of thinkers, speakers, and doers who are stepping up to meet today\u2019s challenges,\u201d the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[49974,2407,2444,49975],"class_list":["post-160753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-fortune-magazine","tag-leila-de-lima","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-worlds-50-greatest-leaders","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160753","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=160753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}