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PHILIPPINES: With Aquino’s death, Duterte’s populism loses a target

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In 2009, the death of democracy icon and former president Corazon Aquino generated a surge of nostalgia that catapulted her son, Benigno Aquino III ("Noynoy"), then a largely nondescript senator with a thin legislative record, to the presidency in 2010. Mr. Aquino's death yesterd...

 

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PHILIPPINES: With Aquino’s death, Duterte’s populism loses a target

In 2009, the death of democracy icon and former president Corazon Aquino generated a surge of nostalgia that catapulted her son, Benigno Aquino III