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AbstractWe are witnessing in the 21st century a dramatic new wave of enclosures of common resources and traditional or indigenous landholdings, as small agrarian producers across the global South are losing their land to large corporations and landowners, especially in the agribusiness and extractive industries. In the context of competing theories about land grabbing and the global commons, this article will offer a detailed empirical account of the strategies by which capital has seized land from smallholders and communities in Honduras, with emphasis on the wide variety of tactics that are used to both grab the land itself and also to maintain an aura of legality around a process that often includes at least the threat of violence.

AbstractThis paper argues that geological materials, which modern European thought views as inert, were understood as lively or animated by indigenous people living between 700 and 1200 AD in what today is the nation of Honduras. Spanish colonial petitions, and oral traditions collected as folklore or ethnographic narratives from the descendants of these indigenous people present earthly matter as animate. Exploring the liveliness of geological materials before European invasion leads to the displacement of a traditional archaeological notion of spatialization organized around an opposition between settlements, treated as the locus of cultural activity, and their surroundings, identified as a contrasting 'nature'. Identifying the co-presence of geological materials in specific zones of mountainous terrain and recognizing their mobility from mountains to floodplains leads to a new understanding of spatialities and temporalities in which humans were enmeshed with wilful substances, co-producing objects that are never entirely removed from their geological matter.

This report examines current conditions in Honduras as well as issues in U.S-Honduras relations.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Overview of Infrastructure in Honduras -- Part 1. A Cross-Sector Vision of Infrastructure and Development -- 1. Country Background and the Economic Importance of Infrastructure -- 2. The Organization of Infrastructure Services and the Role of Private Participation -- 3. Infrastructure Performance: An Overview -- 4. The Impact of Hurricane Mitch and the Progress of Reconstruction -- 5. Consumer Opinions -- 6. Legal, Institutional, and Regulatory Framework for Infrastructure Development -- 7. Infrastructure Financing -- 8. Conclusions -- Part 2. Sector Summaries -- 9. Transportation -- 10. Water and Sanitation -- 11. Electricity -- 12. Telecommunications -- References -- Appendixes (Maps) -- Boxes -- Figures -- Tables.

On 25 Nov 2001, elections were held in Honduras to select a new president, three presidential designates (who function as vice presidents), 128 members of the Congress (propietarios) & 128 substitutes (suplentes), 20 delegates to the Central American Parliament, & 298 municipal councils. These elections were important in many ways, but the most obvious is that holding a sixth democratic election is a strong indication of the stability of the democratic regime in Honduras. This stability is all the more impressive when viewed against the country's history: the current constitution is the country's fourteenth, installed in 1982; the only earlier regime that endured for a similar period was the 1932-1949 dictatorship of Tiburcio Carias. 1 Table, 13 References. Adapted from the source document.