Another problem for Mr Estrada is Subic Bay, a former United States navalbase that has been transformed, since the Americans left it in 1992, into the country's flagship export-processing zone.
An investor in the Subic Bay economic zone, a converted former American navalbase, reckons that although 80% of the transport and telecoms links to the area are finished, that is enough to attract only 10-20% of potential investors.