With dozens of residential units and four commercial warehouses, Community Artists is the biggest landlord in Ciudad Morazán and interacts with almost every resident and business in Morazán in some capacity. During these interactions, it has received a number of requests from residents about alternative payment methods that are cheaper than the ~$1.5 fee that […]
ACH Bank transfers in Honduras cost around 35 to 40 Honduran Lempira, which is roughly $1.5 in US dollars. For context, this is equal to more than 50% of the country’s minimum wage, more than 1% of the cost of rent in Ciudad Morazán and can be as much as 60% of a utility bill. […]
The holiday season is supposed to be a time of happiness and joy. However, given the declining economy and increase in crime, many in Choloma and the rest of Honduras are suffering. To try to do its part to reduce any hardship that its residents may be facing and to spread holiday cheer, Community Artists […]
On November 3, the students of Escuela Debbie Kakanas, a school in a neighborhood near Ciudad Morazán, came to the soccer fields to play for their last day of school. The ZEDE lends them its green areas so they can play and do physical exercise. Ciudad Morazán is an excellent place for them to play […]
eCash is a fork of Bitcoin Cash created by Amaury Séchet with the goal of fulfilling the Bitcoin Whitepaper’s vision of peer-to-peer electronic cash. Its roadmap includes scaling the blockchain to handle five million transactions per second on-chain by using both Nakamoto and Avalanche consensus protocols, providing instant and secure transactions within 3 seconds, and […]
The goal of Ciudad Morazán is to unleash the potential of Honduras. And unleashing suggests that there is a leash. So what is the leash keeping Honduras from being the greatest country in America? The average Honduran might say that it is employment opportunities. And this is why Ciudad Morazán helped create a Zone for […]
When I was growing up in the United States, the image of “police” was a friendly man walking the streets, ready to protect and serve all the inhabitants. Now the picture in the US is cars with militarized people whom even the most law-abiding citizens should beware of. “Officer, was I speeding?” In fact, courts […]
A lot has happened since I wrote about Rosa Aguilar and her small business as the first commercial tenant of Ciudad Morazán last year. She had a short-term contract to rent her space under a tree while she waited for the first houses to be built and the first residents to move in. She had […]
I was excited to watch the first house being built in Ciudad Morazán. I knew it would be unlike any place I had seen before. I had read about the innovative technology that would make it weather-proof, sound-proof, and even earthquake-proof. I knew it would start with lightweight panels of expanded polystyrene and galvanized steel […]
Rosa Amanda Aguilar has a long history with the land that is the ZEDE (Zone of Employment and Economic Development) Ciudad Morazán. For many years, she lived a few hundred meters from the spot where she is growing her business. This land has always been agricultural land. Thirteen years ago, Rosa lived on the farm […]