Summary
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has been impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations including plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., corruption, and failure to confront China’s aggression in the South China Sea.
The move deepens political tensions between Duterte and Marcos, whose alliance collapsed after their 2022 election victory.
Duterte denies wrongdoing, calling the charges political persecution.
The Senate will now decide her fate.
Relatedly, Marcos jr is the son of Marcos. Yes, the former dictator Marcos. I often think about the Philippines when I consider the state of the US. Good place to see the future in the present.
Some friends from Philippines told me Marcos family used a social media campaign for years depicting his father’s decades of dictatorship as some kind of utopia where everything was better. And a ton of people bought that over HARD FACTS. Marcos Sr. stole something like $20billion from Philippines (this was 80s dollars, not current value) so they had a lot of money to spend on this kind of social media engineering. Very scary.