Honduras’ brave new economic experiment is buoying an era of development by kicking poor farmers off their land.
By Lauren Carasik
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - October 23, 2015
Standing in the shade of his modest house in the still-sweltering
Honduran heat, Santos Hernandez Ortiz pointed to the wall that had been
recently built just a few feet from his home, cutting him off from the
land and trees he has been cultivating for 40 years. The wall — which
stands more than 10 feet tall and is made of stone, runs through Ortiz’s
modest lot as well as his neighbors’ — was constructed under the
watchful eye of seven balaclava-clad police officers after a wealthy
landowner claimed it for his own. Now, the leaves of the partitioned
trees hang over the wall, but its fruits are maddeningly out of reach.
Ortiz worries that he might lose his house next.
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