Patricia Evangelista

Feb 20, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Patricia Evangelista |Andrew J. Nathan |Wei Cui |Minxin Pei

In This Review In This Review Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My CountryEvangelista has written an intense, emotional lamentation for the thousands of suspected drug pushers, users, and innocent victims—including children—extrajudicially executed by corrupt cops and vigilantes during the rule of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte from 2016 to 2022.

Dec 1, 2023 | yearendlists.com | Tim Alberta |Patricia Evangelista |Ian Ona Johnson |John Cochrane

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Nov 29, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Patricia Evangelista

In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte, the former mayor of Davao City, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, easily defeated four other candidates in the country’s presidential election. Within hours of taking office, the new president began to make good on his campaign promise: killing those whom he called the “sons of bitches” involved in the country’s illegal narcotics trade.

Oct 31, 2023 | democracyparadox.com | Patricia Evangelista

Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist and former investigative reporter for the Philippine news company Rappler. She has received the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. Recently, she authored the book Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country. Access Bonus Episodes on PatreonMake a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. For people like me or just your ordinary Joes who speak of democracy, I thought it meant freedom.

Oct 14, 2023 | politics-prose.com | Patricia Evangelista

"My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long."Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.