MARLEN V. RONQUILLO
President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to “jail“ the Filipino billionaires who run the metropolitan water concessions — I don’t know if it was mere coincidence — came after a lengthy New York Times article that essentially said this: Mr. Duterte has turned his back on the landless that he vowed to emancipate during his presidential campaign. The story was datelined Sagay City and it started with Eliza Balayo, the widow of a landless farmer who was gunned down while trying to claim a piece of land in that feudal city of a few landlords and legions of landless peasants.