....The incident underscores the risks of traveling and working in a country ranked 130th out of 149 in the Global Peace Index, a gauge measuring factors such as violent crimes, access to weapons and political instability. Newly elected President Benigno Aquino faces three armed insurgencies from Islamic and Communist groups, and has pledged to crack down on corruption in the police force and end the use of more than 100 private armies.
“This isn’t one isolated incident,” said Dane Chamorro, an analyst at Control Risk Asia, which advises companies on political and economist risk. “The problems are not things that happened in last five or 10 years, but have been there for decades” and any solution would require “more than a five- or six-year term in office,” he said......
