![]() When I inform him that I really already have enough business partners in place and he should use the capital he was going to invest in my company to maybe buy some more food for his dogs. ![]() You actually just came in to buy $1,500 pesos worth of that good Bocatto ice cream and are not worthy of being called 'Your mercy.' To this the clerk will promptly respond, 'Para servirle' (another cute way to say 'at your service').Įven the older gentleman with the fleet of dogs by the bus station is always asking 'Me colabora?' (Would you like to collaborate with me?) Like we should get together and work on a project, just him and me. You thank the clerk for such a warm welcome and try to explain to her that really you aren't anyone important. This example is illustrated when you enter the small corner grocery store and the sales clerk says to, 'A sus ordenes su merced' (At your service your mercy). Good luck if you are in a hospital in Colombia and the doctor tells you, 'Hay un inconievente.' This no doubt means that what they thought was just a little routine acid reflux really means that your kidneys have exploded and you have 3 minutes to live.Īlso in Colombia, the customer is made to feel almost like royalty. ![]() The waiter would tell you, 'Sorry sir, there is an inconvenience, the pork sandwich you ordered is going to take an extra 10 minutes before it will be ready.' It was a solution that “aims to fight the root causes of the problem in all its stages rather than just focusing on enforcement and prohibitionist policies.” – Rappler.An everyday phrase here in Colombia is, 'Hay un inconievente.' In English this phrase would be used if maybe the meal you ordered at a restaurant is going to take 5 or 10 minutes longer than expected to arrive to your table. The same report noted that Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos recently planned to propose a “more human solution” to the problem of drugs during a recent United Nations general assembly. (READ: After 30 years on the frontline, Colombia looks beyond the failed war on drugs) Today, the country is “at the forefront of attempts to overhaul global narcotics policies,” according to a recent article on The Guardian. Some have labeled Colombia’s decades-long war against illegal drugs as a “failure.” But why is Colombia clean now? How come Thailand is now clean?) Bakit ano, bakit malinis yung Colombia? Nalinis yung ibang lugar, yung Thailand?” said Dela Rosa, when asked about how critics mention other countries’ experiences in battling illegal drugs. As it enters its third month, the death toll has breached the 2,000 mark, including those killed in legitimate police operations and extrajudicial killings.Ĭritics have cited the experience in other countries such as Colombia, Mexico and Thailand in battling drugs to hit the Duterte administration. Data from the PNP shows that since the “war on drugs,” was launched, the crime volume went down – save for the number of murder and homicide cases. When asked why he was going to visit, Dela Rosa said: “ to observe kung paano sila nanalo, kung ano ginawa para manalo sa war on drugs (how they won, what they did to win the war on drugs).”Ī campaign to eradicate illegal drugs, crime, and corruption was among Duterte’s key promises during the 2016 presidential elections.īoth Duterte and Dela Rosa have argued that illegal drugs is the root cause of other forms of crime – from murder, to rape, and petty theft. May plano kami baka within next month, bibisita kami don (We have plans to visit next month),” Dela Rosa told Rappler in a chance interview on Thursday, September 1, after the House of Representatives’ briefing for the Interior Department’s 2017 budget. “ Bibisita ako (I’m going to visit) Colombia. MANILA, Philippines – Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa is set to visit Colombia “within the next month” to see for himself how they “won the war on drugs.”ĭela Rosa, who has been chief of the PNP for two months now, is among the key officials in President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “ war on drugs.”
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