ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS
PRESIDENT Duterte has been so identified as friendly to the Marcoses that his critics have painted him as Marcos incarnate. It did not help that he was vocal in his support for the burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani. And it was even worse when he declared martial law in Mindanao. The political optics were conveniently painted as a President ready to honor as hero a predecessor who served as a template for his kind of rule, which to his critics is that of a tyrannical fascist.