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Spare the Rodrigo: Philippine elections
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Personalities, not policies, will determine votes in today’s poll in the Philippines to fill some 18,000 government jobs. Loyalists of the firebrand president Rodrigo Duterte—including his daughter—will do well. Also, why is it that amid a growing need for new antibiotics, the incentives to produce them are fewer? And, a trip to the tiny Greek island of Delos, for an unusual meeting of modern art and protected antiquity.Runtime: 21min For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
May 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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