18-Mar-2025
Public Seminar
How an unregulated techno-utopia came into existence and continues to sabotage a nation’s sovereignty.
6-Feb-2025
Foreign Policy in Focus
After throwing off its narco-dictatorship, Honduras is trying to take its cities back from US-based libertarians.
23-Jan-2025
Dominican Today
Agricultural expert has raised alarms about the potential collapse of 80% of Dominican rice producers due to the implementation of tariff-free rice imports under the DR-CAFTA agreement.
17-Sep-2024
Inside Climate News
One of Latin America’s poorest countries faces a wave of claims from foreign investors seeking billions of dollars. Chief among them is an American company looking to build a semi-autonomous “startup city.”
29-Aug-2024
New York Times
The dream of Próspera, founded by a US corporation off the coast of Honduras, was to escape government control. The Honduran government wants it gone but Próspera filed an astronomical $10.775 billion lawsuit against the state.
18-Jul-2024
The Jordan Times
Imagine a scenario where a private company effectively creates and controls its own jurisdiction within a sovereign country. This company introduces its own currency, enacts laws, and establishes courts, prisons, police forces and even intelligence services.
26-Mar-2024
Linda Sánchez
Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez and Congressman Lloyd Doggett led 45 of their colleagues in calling on the Biden Administration to work to remove the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism from the Central America – Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement.
20-Mar-2024
The Intercept
After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, the cryptoquistadors took the dispute to a World Bank arbitration court.
9-Jan-2024
NACLA Report on the Americas
As President Xiomara Castro’s administration works to mitigate the fallout of the post-coup years, transnational companies are lining up to sue the state for lost profits.
1-Dec-2023
Project Syndicate
The ongoing lawsuit brought against Honduras by an American company underscores the unjust and undemocratic nature of the investor-state dispute settlement system.
20-Jul-2023
Bretton Woods Project
Honduras is threatening to withdraw from the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes over an $11 billion claim by Honduras Prospera, a US company.
30-Jun-2023
Public Citizen
We stand in solidarity with the people of Honduras and condemn US company Próspera’s $11 billion case against the will of the people.