MANILA -- Just months before the COVID pandemic drew the curtain over our 'normal' lives, I received an intriguing phone call.
It was from no less than former president Benigno Aquino III, affectionately known as "Noynoy." Aquino, who died from kidney disease last Thursday at the age of 61, was apparently intent on responding to a piece I had written for The Philippine Daily Inquirer, "Five myths of Dutertismo."
