Honduras: Model Cities Rejected
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/world/americas/honduras-model-cities-rejected.html Version 0 of 1. 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. |