Honduras: Model Cities Rejected

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The Supreme Court has struck down a plan to build a series of model cities with their own independent tax and justice systems, a proposal that aimed to spur economic growth and foreign investment.

The justices voted 13 to 2 on Wednesday night that legislation permitting the creation of special development zones outside the jurisdiction of ordinary Honduran law was unconstitutional, a court spokesman said Thursday.