Alvarez welcomes President Duterte to his 60th birthday party.

Most importantly of all, however, Alvarez has Duterte’s back. He was one of the first to accuse Sen. Leila de Lima of coddling drug lords at the Bilibid prison, a charge that seemed to have been plucked out of thin air. The President’s arch-critic before she was locked up, De Lima was then mounting an investigation into the hundreds of bodies that had begun piling up soon after Duterte declared his war on drugs. Alvarez belittled her efforts, calling the probe a waste of congressional time. He would have her investigated instead, he said, and proceeded to viciously malign her reputation.

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