Neoliberal Dream: Honduras to Inaugurate First High-Tech Private Charter City
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Home to the US’ largest airbase in Central America, Honduras has long served as a hub for US foreign policy, including funneling arms to right-wing governments and insurgent forces to use against the left. In turn, pliant pro-US governments in Tegucigalpa have allowed US apparel firms to base their sweatshops in special export zones.
Honduras is preparing to inaugurate a new high-tech corporate fiefdom on a Caribbean resort island that will become the country’s latest experiment in neo-liberal privatization schemes.
Próspera, Honduras’ first privately governed charter city, is set to welcome its first residents later this year. The city is located on the Honduran island of Roatán, about 30 miles off the north coast, although according to
Honduran delegation starts U.S. talks seeking aid for hurricane damage By Gustavo Palencia
FILE PHOTO: A group of migrants from Honduras walk along the railway track on their way to the United States in Huimanguillo
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -A Honduran delegation began talks in Washington on Wednesday to seek economic help for devastating hurricanes which have ravaged the Central American country and helped spur a jump in immigration that has tested U.S. President Joe Biden.
Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales said he had met U.S. Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas to present him with a final report on the damage caused by Hurricanes Eta and Iota, which struck Honduras two weeks apart late last year.
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Tegucigalpa, Apr 6 (efe-epa).- The trial of an alleged mastermind behind the 2016 murder of award-winning environmentalist Berta Cáceres began in Honduras on Tuesday.
Cáceres, a winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, was shot dead in her La Esperanza home by armed intruders five years ago. Her Mexican friend Gustavo Castro was also shot but played dead and survived.
The activist had campaigned against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam project developed by Desarrollos Energéticos (Desa) over concerns of threats to the environment and indigenous Lenca communities.
Four of eight defendants in the case were each sentenced in December 2019 to 34 years in prison for the murder of Cáceres and 16 years for the attempted murder of Castro. Three others were sentenced to 30 years in prison as co-perpetrators of the crime.
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Supporters of Honduran environmental and Indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres protest during the trial against Roberto David Castillo, an alleged mastermind of her murder, outside of the Supreme Court building in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The trial began five years after the prize-winning activist s murder. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez) April 06, 2021 - 6:57 PM
The trial of an alleged mastermind of the killing of Honduran environmental and Indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres began Tuesday, five years after the prize-winning activist was shot to death.
Prosecutors say David Roberto Castillo MejÃa, president of a company building a dam that Cáceres had been fighting, co-ordinated her 2016 killing.
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TEGUCIGALPA Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales will on Friday lead a delegation to Washington to seek economic help following two devastating hurricanes that have contributed to increased immigration, three Honduran government sources said.
Hurricanes Eta and Iota, which hit Honduras two weeks apart around November, flooded vast areas, destroyed homes and caused about $1.8 billion in damages, affecting some 4 million people, Honduran officials said.
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Rosales’ trip to Washington will focus on aid to address the root causes of immigration, such as the coronavirus pandemic and the hurricanes that have exacerbated poverty levels in Honduras, a Honduran presidency source said.