HONDURAS: Activists March On Attorney General Over Epidemic Of Gay Murders

Globovision reports that 22 LGBT people have been murdered so far this year in Honduras. Five were murdered this month alone. Via Google Translate:

Members of the gay community of Honduras on Monday marched to the Attorney General to clarify and justice for the murder of about 22 companions so far in 2013, five of them in the last month. "We demand justice for cases of our colleagues who have been killed," said journalist José Zambrano, one of the leaders of the Association for a Better Life in Honduras (APUVIMEH), who participated in the march, which ended in front of the headquarters of the Special Prosecutor for crimes against life, an office which was created in August.

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HONDURAS: American Libertarians To Build New City Free Of Taxes

The Honduran government has granted permission for the construction of a new city that will be completely free of income, sales, and capital gains taxes. The city will be built by an American investment group of libertarians that says it will use the state of Texas as a model for the few laws they will put in place.

Proponents say the tiny, as-yet unnamed town will become a Central American beacon of job creation and investment, by combining secure property rights with minimal government interference. “Once we provide a sound legal system within which to do business, the whole job creation machine – the miracle of capitalism – will get going,” Michael Strong, CEO of the MKG Group, which will build the city and set its laws, told FoxNews.com. Strong said that the agreement with the Honduran government states that the only tax will be on property. “Our goal is to be the most economically free entity on Earth,” Strong said. “First, we will build the critical infrastructure -- roads, water, power, sewers," Strong said. "In collaboration with the [Honduran] government, we will then create the city’s government system and the security, and 3 to 6 months after that we will build the first factories.” The MKG Group city is the first to get approval, but Honduras plans to create other “free cities” as well.

Strong is on the board of directors of homocon billionaire Peter Thiel's Seasteading Institute, which has proposed a similar plan to creating floating "free cities" using oil drilling platforms.  The Honduran project will presumably include Thiel's plan to evade international banking regulations.

HONDURAS: LGBT Activist Walter Trochez Assassinated In Drive-By Shooting

Doug Ireland reports that Honduran LGBT activist Walter Trochez was assassinated in his home country over the weekend.

Walter Trochez 25 years old, a well-known LGBT activist in an active member of the National Resistance Front against the coup d'etat there, was assassinated on the evening of December 13, shot dead by drive-by killers. Trochez, who had already been arrested and beaten for his sexual orientation after participating in a march against the coup, had been very active recently in documenting and publicizing homophobic killings and crimes committed by the forces behind the coup, which is believed to have been the motive for his murder. He had been trailed for weeks before his murder by thugs believed to be members of the state security forces.

Trochez had recently published an editorial decrying the human rights violations of the ruling regime, which has murdered at least 18 other LGBT citizens.