{"id":172695,"date":"2018-07-23T22:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T02:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172695"},"modified":"2018-07-23T22:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T02:28:22","slug":"duterte-warns-rice-hoarders-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/23\/duterte-warns-rice-hoarders-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte warns rice hoarders, cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_172709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172709\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ph23-072318-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172709\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ph23-072318-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ph23-072318-1.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ph23-072318-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ph23-072318-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ph23-072318-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, in his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Joint Session of the 17th Congress at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives Complex in Constitution Hills, Quezon City on July 23, 2018, reiterates his vow to do whatever it takes to give all Filipinos a comfortable life, fighting powerful interests and making sacrifices. VALERIE ESCALERA\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Monday issued a stern warning against rice traders engaged in hoarding and cartel operations, who are being blamed for the artificial rice shortage that leads to high rice prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now ask all the rice hoarders, cartels and their protectors, you know that I know who you are: stop messing with the people. Power sometimes is not a good thing. But I hope I will not have to use it against you,&#8221; Duterte said during his third State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) delivered before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider yourselves warned; mend your ways now or the full force of the State shall be brought to bear upon you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive directed all intelligence agencies to unmask the perpetrators of this \u201ceconomic sabotage\u201d and for law enforcement agencies to bring them to justice.<\/p>\n<p>To lower the price of rice, President Duterte underscored the need for the country to switch from the current quota system in importing rice to a tariff system where rice can be imported more freely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will give us additional resources for our farmers, reduce the price of rice by up to 7 pesos per kilo, and lower inflation significantly. I ask Congress to prioritize this crucial reform, which I have certified as urgent today,\u201d he said, referring to the rice tariffication bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Monday issued a stern warning against rice traders engaged in hoarding and cartel operations, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":172709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-leslie-gatpolintan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172695","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=172695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}