{"id":833427,"date":"2022-10-10T05:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=258002"},"modified":"2022-10-10T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:38:43","slug":"why-is-the-us-condemning-honduras-for-fighting-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/10\/why-is-the-us-condemning-honduras-for-fighting-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the US Condemning Honduras for Fighting Corruption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiomara Castro, the president of Honduras, won a major victory for democracy earlier this year when Congress repealed the country\u2019s Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Econ\u00f3mico law (ZEDE, or \u201cEconomic Development and Employment Zones\u201d in English). The legislation enabled the creation of special governance zones, which have \u201cfunctional and administrative autonomy\u201d from the national government.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/10\/why-is-the-us-condemning-honduras-for-fighting-corruption\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/10\/why-is-the-us-condemning-honduras-for-fighting-corruption\/\">Why is the US Condemning Honduras for Fighting Corruption?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/10\/why-is-the-us-condemning-honduras-for-fighting-corruption\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiomara Castro, the president of Honduras, won a major victory for democracy earlier this year when Congress repealed the country\u2019s Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Econ\u00f3mico law (ZEDE, or \u201cEconomic Development and Employment Zones\u201d in English). The legisl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833428,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833427\/revisions\/833428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}