ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS HONESTLY, I really pity Leni Robredo. She is now afflicted with a reverse Midas touch syndrome, where she is trashed for anything she touches and says. She is also suffering from a partial Cassandra effect, where she is not taken seriously, even if what she is saying may be the truth, or makes sense. When she urged the Duterte government to consider studying the case of Portugal with regard to its policy of decriminalizing drug use, all hell broke loose. What appeared as merely a suggestion on her part to study that policy option took the character of an unwarranted meddling, and the real sense of what she said was lost in translation. And it did not help that she...
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