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| From New York Times |
I wrote not long ago about the plan - or hope, anyway - for
charter cities in Honduras. The idea is that all the current efforts to improve things haven't worked, so it's time to try something radical. Set aside a big chunk of land, start a new city from scratch, suspend democracy and let technocrats make the rules, with the help of a foreign government or two.
Effectively, create a brand new country within Honduras.
There are obvious perils, as I noted. But once you've lived her for a while, it's hard to dismiss the idea out of hand.
There's an
interesting piece in the NYT today on the topic.
It is an idea that both makes sense and makes no sense. Done ethically, I am all for it; done unethically you get a country within a country Dracula would be at home in. As the concept proposed looks like a top down creation my bet is on the happy Dracula scenario. A bottom up such end around the state, done ethically as previously stated, sounds like the sort of place I would be happy to drink beer and raise my beer drinking children in.
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