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Article

23 Dec 2015

Author:
National Lawyers Guild International Committee

Honduras: Documentary shows impacts of "model cities" funded by foreign investors on Garifunas' access to ancestral lands

“ZEDEs: Neocolonialism and land grabbing in Honduras”, 16 Oct 2015

…ZEDEs, also described as "model cities"…represent a radical experiment…in which Honduran territory is ceded to the control of foreign investors who will develop their own economic, legal, judicial and security systems. Billed by proponents as a way to spur development, promote functioning institutions, and circumvent corruption, those directly affected by the prospect of the ZEDEs tell a starkly different story….With little recourse in a corrupt legal system, besieged indigenous and campesino communities are organizing in peaceful resistance to land grabs that have already started to displace them from their homes and livelihoods…