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Ladan Mehranvar, Senior Legal Researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (Columbia University Climate School), New York, discusses the conflict between the people and government of Honduras and a private billionaire investors’ firm over control of Roatán, an island 40 miles off the country’s Caribbean coast.

This case raises profound global questions: What happens when the super tech-rich try to carve out enclaves where they can be immune from national laws and establish their own rules — often at the exclusion of local populations?

Join host Pedro Rodriguez for an in-depth conversation that connects Honduras to wider struggles for sovereignty, equity, and accountability around the world.

Also check Part II -