Rice smuggling in Philippines worse under Daang Matuwid

MANY of the bad things that have been pulling our country down for decades have grown by infuriating multiples under President BS Aquino. Criminality, poverty, incompetence and inefficiency (just think of the dangerous MRT and LRT trains and the absence of car, truck, motorcycle and bus plates), the untruthfulness of public officials starting from Mr. Aquino himself, and so on and so forth.

We Filipinos generally know that smuggling has multiplied many times since 2010--and that some of the smuggled products are those that hurt our poorest people, the farmers.