A hot Labor Day
A hot Labor Day
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Analysis
The May 1 Labor Day rally this year is turning out to be a hot one, and it is not only because of the very hot days, which began this Holy Week. Barely a year in office, the administration of President Benigno Aquino III is already being saddled by many issues: the incessant increases in the prices of oil products, food and basic commodities, and rates of basic services, the festering problems of unemployment and underemployment, the worsening poverty, the prevailing impunity in the commission of human rights violations, especially extrajudicial killings, and the deteriorating environmental situation being caused by large-scale logging and mining. Even corruption reared its ugly head once more during the August 23 hostage crisis and the jueteng scandal involving the Department of the Interior and Local Government.
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