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I think this is old. Prospera, the charter city it is opposing, has already broken ground. https://prospera.hn https://prospera.hn
by CityOfThrowaway 5y ago
I think this is old. Prospera, the charter city it is opposing, has already broken ground.
https://prospera.hn https://prospera.hn
- vmception 5y agoThe cynic in me was correct, it is for sale But either way, kind of crazy that the head of state can dismiss supreme court appointees
- Wolfenstein98k 5y agoWho appoints them?
- m0llusk 5y agoThe controversy started when actual properties started to be bought and used as part of this plan. Prospera operations are not subject to Honduran laws or taxes. Instead of enabling the locals to prosper they have been pushing them off their land. What was supposed to be egalitarian and empowering has turned out in practice to be just another ugly example of colonialism.
- bifrost 5y agoSo eminent domain type things are being used?
- ryukoposting 5y agoImagine you live in Chicago, and the federal government just decided that businesses that are based in Milwaukee don't have to pay their employees federal minimum wage.
- gwbrooks 5y agoProspera's minimum wage is higher than the Honduran national minimum wage.
- bifrost 5y agook, so then don't work for Milwaukee based businesses, seems fairly straightforward.
- hindsightbias 5y agoSo what does Chicago look like after all the jobs move to MKE?
- hardolaf 5y agoEven bigger as everyone from Milwaukee flees for higher wages.
- atlasunshrugged 5y agoBut the properties were bought and everything was done in legal agreement with the government, no? Do you have any sources for the claim that they are "pushing them off their land?" I kept semi up to date with the project and news around it until a few months ago and I don't remember ever seeing any substantiated claims about that, although from articles and things like this it is obvious that not everyone is happy about the situation.
- bifrost 5y agoThe claims seem to be similar to what we're facing with NIMBYism in San Francisco, which often seems to be based in Xenophobia. It would be one thing if they were destroying a several hundred year old city but that doesn't seem like its the case.
- jamal-kumar 5y agoI would recommend spending more time in thousands of year old rainforest islands with some of the most pristine coral in the world. That's not xenophobia, it looks like they're dropping a crappy american city on that and making it clearly less inviting to the local's ability to afford living there than anything else I've seen in a while like this. Americans love to do stuff on islands like this which wrecks the coral, they won't stop flushing toilet paper or other stuff like washing all their cosmetics and stearyl alcohol soaps which wreck everything in every reef near where people settle bringing these things. It'll go from some of the world's most pristine intact scenery to trash in no time. It's not a san francisco backyard bruh
- shkkmo 5y agoThat is ridiculous and deeply offensive. I hope you simply aren't familiar with the facts here. (It so, here is a starting point to learn more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honduras-landrights-garifuna-idUSKCN1LD168 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honduras-landrights-garif...) It is not "NIMBYism" when people complain that land which they own is sold without their consent. When those people are a poor ethnic group with indigenous history on the land that is being taken away, often with force, to be sold to rich people of another ethnicity, we have moved so far away from ”NIMBYism" that we passed all the way through "gentrification" and are starting to approach "ethnic cleansing".