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Checked by Vera Files8 Sep 2022PhilippinesHealth
Cesar Veloso

“The two presidents before Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “did nothing” to save convicted Filipino worker Mary Jane Veloso from execution for drug smuggling in Indonesia.”

Vera Files rated this: False

Vera Files says: Former president Rodrigo Duterte chose not to interfere with Indonesia’s judicial process, saying he would accept the country’s decision on Mary Jane’s case. However, the late president Benigno Aquino III took steps to …