The Dream: Why ZEDEs Believers Fight to Survive in Honduras Joyce Brand

Morazán City, a Honduran special economic and development zone (ZEDE) designed for Hondurans, has been quietly reshaping what governance can look like. The construction started in 2020, and now a few hundred residents have chosen to move to this partially autonomous city. In this location, innovative institutions promise a more secure, prosperous, and business-friendly locale than elsewhere in Honduras.In 2024, President Xiomara Castro repealed the ZEDE Law, giving existing ZEDEs a 10-year deadline to operate under special rules. Despite political uncertainty Joyce Brand, author of Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities (2024), contends autonomous cities like Morazán are the future of governance and economic freedom. Brand emphasizes: “Honduran workers, not libertarians, are happy to reside in Morazán City.”Show notes: "Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities" by Joyce Brand:

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