'No one could stop him, not even the President, from doing what he thought would be best for our people.'
Editor’s Note: This profile was originally published on March 8, 2016. We have republished this piece in memory of former foreign secretary Albert del Rosario whoMANILA, Philippines – Only 36 hours after taking his oath as the Philippines’ top diplomat in February 2011, then Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario flew to Tripoli, Libya, to help bring 400 Filipinos out of this danger zone.
“He would again be Moses in the years that followed, leading our people home from one hotspot to another,” Cato said in a public Facebook post on Sunday, March 6. “The Secretary knew he would be placing himself in the line of fire whenever he headed out for a rescue mission abroad. But there was never any hesitation on his part,” Cato wrote.
of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina drug trafficking convict who was set to be killed by firing squad in Indonesia in April 2015. Once, according to Reuters, he even departed “from the usual diplomatic niceties” after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reeled off “a list of complaints against Manila for stirring tensions over the South China Sea.”
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