Highway Heist in Honduras: How Corporations Fleece Regular People in Impoverished Countries

Highway Heist in Honduras: How Corporations Fleece Regular People in Impoverished Countries

A private-public partnership to improve highway infrastructure in Honduras was supposed to be a boon for economic development. Instead, it quickly turned out to be a lose-lose agreement for an already impoverished population — and a grim warning about investment rules that give corporations too much power. It began in 2016, when the government proposed to develop a highway along Honduras’s northern coast — complete with tolls that would have rai…