Inside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's War on Drugs

Aug 25, 2016, 11:48 AM
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At around 11 p.m. on July 25, Restituto Castro received an anonymous text message asking him to leave his house in the Caloocan district of northern Manila and come to the corner of the McArthur Highway.

Just hours earlier, the Philippines’ new President, 71-year-old Rodrigo Duterte, had given his inaugural State of the Nation address, in which he repeated the vow that saw him elected by a landslide in early May.

“We will not stop until the last drug lord .