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Today, Explained

The president's hit list

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

“I’d be happy to slaughter them,” President Rodrigo Duterte said about three million drug users in the Philippines. It appears he is following through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It ends up this episode features some violence, some murder, protect the kids and maybe

0:33.6

yourself too, we'll start in a beat.

0:37.4

In June of 2017, there were these two friends who had grown up together in a shanty town

0:43.5

in Manila in the Philippines.

0:45.8

They had known each other almost in childhood.

0:48.1

You know, they played basketball together.

0:50.8

They hung out now.

0:51.8

They were in their 30s.

0:54.1

And both of them had been entangled in the drug trade.

0:58.2

So that night there was a power failure and both of them couldn't sleep so close to midnight.

1:04.7

One of them, Manuel Borreg walks over to the house of his friend, Jeffresson Sariano,

1:10.2

and says, come let's talk.

1:12.6

And as they were sipping their coffee, a car passes by and its headlights illuminate the

1:19.1

other street corner where there were two men wearing balaclavas, face masks, and dark

1:26.1

jackets.

1:27.1

So Jeffresson told his friend, bro, cops, he said, because he knows cops.

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