You can find all kinds of information about Honduras to decide for yourself what the outcomes can be for you.
The tourism industry currently ranks fifth in revenue generation for Honduras. Over the past decade the Honduran Government has initiated numerous schemes such as the Tourism Free Zone Law, which permits local and foreign companies free introduction into the country of equipment and machinery for tourist projects. However, the majority of investment has remained focused on Honduras’ coral reefs, snorkeling, scuba diving, beaches, national parks and the Mayan archaeological sites found at Copan. -- http://www.marrder.com/htw/2003mar/travel.htm
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Honduras, the second poorest country in Central America, suffers from extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, as well as high underemployment. While historically dependent on the export of bananas and coffee, Honduras has diversified its export base to include apparel and automobile wire harnessing. Nearly half of Honduras's economic activity is directly tied to the US, with exports to the US accounting for 30% of GDP and remittances for another 20%. The US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) came into force in 2006 and has helped foster foreign direct investment, but physical and political insecurity, as well as crime and perceptions of corruption, may deter potential investors; about 70% of FDI is from US firms. The economy registered sluggish economic growth in 2010, insufficient to improve living standards for the nearly 65% of the population in poverty. The LOBO administration inherited a difficult fiscal position with off-budget debts accrued in previous administrations and government salaries nearly equivalent to tax collections. His government has displayed a commitment to improving tax collection and cutting expenditures, and attracting foreign investment. This enabled Tegucigalpa to secure an IMF Precautionary Stand-By agreement in October 2010. The IMF agreement has helped renew multilateral and bilateral donor confidence in Honduras following the ZELAYA administration's economic mismanagement and the 2009 coup.-- CIA World Factbook here.
Bing found this...  Pictures here from the 1986 civil war. (An earlier civil war in 1911 was resolved with an open election with the loser abiding by the results.) These guys will be in and around your industrialized complex ... and will be hired into, by, and for your security force. Myself, I work for Securitas, headquartered in Sweden. If you want Swedes or Americans, you will need to pay them -- and being foreigners, they will be barricaded in your industrialized ministate with you. Myself, if I were hired to run security, I would do what Tom Clancy recommended and select ethnically Hispanic American citizens. Also, just my preference as a peaceful professional civilian who does not own a firearm, it is a toss-up whether former military are better than former police. They both have their pros and cons. Military are more disciplined and better team players. As a dispatcher, if I sent out two cops, I might get one or none back because they would split up and drift off after completing the call. With army guys, you send out two, you get two back. Problem is you do not want your police to be an occupying army. Security is a service. My model is the concierge: first aid, CPR, maybe even weaponized, but a gracious helper first.) Exalead turn up this... Out of 184 countries, Honduras is about the 150th best to do business in. Scroll down and you will see that they have more regulations than the "average" Latin American country, but they do process the paperwork in one-fourth the time. Of course, all of the above will change in your own private city... surrounded by the guys in the pictures...
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 9/16, 10:20am)
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