My wife went to Pampanga in the Philippines about 2 months ago.
There were masked men with AK47’s everywhere, guarding everything. She couldn’t get into the Marriott Hotel without dogs sniffing the car and masked men with AK47’s searching under her car with mirrors, every time she returned to the motel.
It was the same entering the motel through the front door, she was screened with detectors everytime.
She threw an office party for some staff over there, she took a couple of kilograms of Cadbury chocolate as gifts (apparently a favourite)
At their party, again, AK47’s in the function room.
She said she was told right off, if she pointed a camera at any of them that they would confiscate her camera/phone so she wouldn’t sneak a photo, no matter how much I tried to get one.
Crazy.