By Volt Contreras, Philip Tubeza, Jerry E. Esplanada, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Using what the Philippine foreign secretary called “smile diplomacy,” some 440 Filipinos made the dangerous journey from troubled Libya to Tunisia on Monday, through desert roads dotted by government and rebel checkpoints, some manned by armed teens and beefed up with tanks and antiaircraft guns.“I think the Lord was with us,” acting Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario Monday said of the six-hour drive he and the evacuees took from Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
