{"id":6011,"date":"2020-01-30T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2020-01-30T02:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:59:15","slug":"bureau-of-customs-office-in-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6011","title":{"rendered":"Bureau of Customs Office in Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Philippines\u2019 corrupt customs bureau makes mockery of<br> Duterte\u2019s war on drugs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1119_ArtImg_CustomsBureau.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6014\" width=\"494\" height=\"401\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">Local residents believe that the most corrupt government office in the Philippines is filled with <em>\u201cbuwayas\u201d<\/em> or crocodiles, the name used to describe greedy customs officers, who pocket money from business owners.<br><br>It started like a drug-war police thriller. Now it\u2019s playing like a farce, with bumbling agents pointing fingers at each other and an exasperated President Rodrigo Duterte looking hapless, sacking officials and calling in the army.<br><br>The plot includes shady operatives, whistle-blowers, X-ray scanners, sniffer dogs \u2501 and a colossal shipment of drugs valued in billions of pesos.<br><br>At the heart of the story are magnetic lifters, the massive, circular steel plates attached to cranes to move scrap metal. \u03a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines\u2019 corrupt customs bureau makes mockery of Duterte\u2019s war on drugs Local residents believe that the most corrupt government office in the Philippines is filled with \u201cbuwayas\u201d or crocodiles, the name used to describe greedy customs officers, who pocket money from business owners. It started like a drug-war police thriller. Now it\u2019s playing like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}