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The Corporate Assault on Honduras: Mafia-style investments and the Honduran people’s

24 Sep 2024

The purpose of this report is to understand this avalanche of arbitration claims against Honduras in the post-coup political, social and economic context, to examine the legal mechanisms that make possible this assault on the democracy and dignity of the Honduran people, and to consider the challenge of undoing the tentacles of narco-dictatorship and neoliberalism. [...] The contracts, investment commitments or the nature of the projects that are the subject of the lawsuits did not follow due process because either the creation of the legal framework, or the contracts for each party, did not follow the law. [...] The long Honduran night: Resistance, terror, and the role of the United States in the aftermath of the coup. [...] Between 2010 and 2012 Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries in the world for its homicide rate, and was named by the UK organization Global Witness as one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be an environmentalist.10 Part of the danger was due to the high levels of impunity that had characterized Honduras for decades, but the actions of the security forces against social. [...] The same law mentions the need to encourage investments in renewable energies given the interest and financial contributions of multilateral and bilateral organizations such as the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank and the FMO bank of Holland, among others.35 35 Amendments to the Law for the Promotion of Electric Energy Generatio.
Pages
136
Published in
Netherlands

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