Patricia Evangelista, Journalist: "In the Philippines We Have Suffered Terror at the Hands of an Autocrat Who Emerged From the Polls"

For six years, Patricia Evangelista covered the war on drugs in her country, the Philippines, a campaign of violence and populism that President Rodrigo Duterte launched to get to power and become strong. On July 1, 2016, she ordered the killing of drug addicts and small traffickers she blamed for the country’s evils. So far more than 30,000 people have been murdered by vigilantes and plainclothes police, although the government admits only 6,25…