Will Charter Cities Force a Third Middle Passage For the Garífuna People?
By Cesar Rochez-Reyes, Honduran attorney
October 2013
The author details the struggle of the Garífuna peoples in Honduras to preserve their homeland and culture. Public-private collusion has led to the supplantation of representative government and forceable uprooting of Garífuna from their coastal homelands. Investor-controlled “Charter Cities” now pave the way for multinational corporate resort development schemes…at what cost to principles of governance and indigenous rights?
