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…