By Raissa Robles – On the night of July 15, President Rodrigo Duterte met with a certain “Peter Lim”, a man Duterte recently identified as the head honcho of drug trafficking in central Philippines. Not only had the President ID’d the alleged drug lord, he had also warned that if Lim (who was then presumably abroad), returned here, “he will die” because he is “beyond redemption”.

Despite the bloodcurdling threat, nothing happened to Lim when he met the President. In fact, apart from being thoroughly unscathed, Lim also got a job offer.