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This is the risk of every special economic zone, but the problem is, increasingly the wealth is a result of information economy companies.

Venezuala can nationalize the state oil company a lot easier than Honduras would be able to nationalize my software company (which, by the way, will be legally domiciled elsewhere, most likely) and unless they kidnap me, such actions would cause me (and anyone wise) to leave.

Looking at the history of SEZs around the world they have done pretty well. Panama tried an experiment on the atlantic side of the canal and it has boomed... But if Panama were to "nationalize" it, all they'd have is a bunch of warehouses (and maybe the goods in them, but that wouldn't last very long.)



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