Erick A. Brimen

On the island of Roatán, off the coast of Honduras, a company called Próspera runs something the textbooks say cannot exist: a functioning jurisdiction where governance is a service you purchase rather than a burden you inherit at birth. The mechanism is elegant. You sign an agreement with the platform, pay a flat annual fee (around $260 for Hondurans, $1,300 for foreigners), and in exchange you get a legal system, dispute resolution, and a regulatory menu you actually choose from. Businesses select which country's regulations they want to operate under. A clinic can opt into Arizona medical rules. A builder can pick from a set of international codes rather than wait for a bureaucrat in Tegucigalpa to stamp a form. The contract binds Próspera too, which is the part statists never understand. When the ruler signs the same document as the ruled, arbitrary power gets expensive. This is Paul Romer's charter city idea stripped of its World Bank chaperone and handed to private capital. Honduras passed the ZEDE law in 2013 under President Juan Orlando Hernández. Próspera opened in 2020. The residents came. The capital came. Then the politics arrived. President Xiomara Castro's government repealed the ZEDE framework in April 2022, and Honduras now faces Próspera in international arbitration with a claim that reached $10.775 billion, roughly a third of the country's GDP. Consider what that tells you. A nation of nine million people torched a project that promised jobs and foreign investment, then discovered that breaking contracts with people who read contracts carries a price. The lesson here is old: property rights and legal predictability produce development. They are not luxuries you enjoy after development. Hong Kong under British common law went from fishing rocks to financial capital on exactly this insight, no natural resources required. Próspera's enemies call it a colonial enclave for the rich. Odd, then, that the cheaper residency tier is reserved for the locals, and that the whole point is letting a poor Honduran opt out of the sclerotic system that kept his grandfather poor. Governments hate exit. Próspera is exit made legal, priced, and voluntary. Watch which side blinks.

Miró al cielo y se hizo la pregunta que lo cambió todo: ¿qué hay más allá de la Tierra? Con 10 años, André Mejía representa a Honduras ante la NASA y hoy es embajador de Próspera. Su sueño: que más niños hondureños miren al cielo con curiosidad. Episodio completo en Prosperity Tales.

Vino por dos semanas y terminó quedándose a vivir. Nelly Pineda buscaba en Honduras algo que solo había visto afuera: un lugar para crear, construir y desarrollar ideas. Lo había intentado hace 10 años en San Pedro Sula. Acá lo encontró.

"Somos más que playa." Indira Fox dejó Naciones Unidas para contarle al mundo lo que Honduras tenía y nadie estaba mostrando. Fueron los mismos isleños, con fondos propios, los que salieron a promover Roatán en ferias internacionales. Su historia completa, en Prosperity Tales.

@NickDranias @gabedelgadoa @GeorgeColindres 100% relate! Going intergalactic will be awesome, but preserving flourishing life on earth is absolutely critical as well - and solving Governance is the cornerstone!

Venezuela has suffered a tragedy yesterday as most know by now. Anyone willing to help please DM me. Thanks!

@UnderSecE @prosperahn Not a SV per se… but a platform for economic development, prosperity, and security!

Have had very similar conversations as well. Truth is that there’s no shortcut to recreating Silicon Valley. If a foreign partner wants to build a true domestic world class innovation ecosystem, they need nail point (2) to create the conditions and incentives that make it possible.

@pmarca @Prosperahn

I have had 1,000 conversations with government officials that go like this: 1. “How do we have a Silicon Valley of our own?” 2. [I list the half dozen key things] 3. “But what if we can’t do any of those?” The world would be better with 10, 100, 1,000 more Silicon Valleys.

Ceiba 2050? 🤭

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense. SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world. Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere. SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity. Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help. The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist. Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives. Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation. Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears. Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction. We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

@thenicolasweber @ProsperaGlobal @gabedelgadoa @syrtsov_ivan @mikeHND @RubenFajardoM Actually, 1. most residents are Honduran, and 2. by building vertically we massively reduce the environmental footprint of development. It is widely recognized that densification through vertical development is much better for the environment and economic productivity.

@erickbrimen @ProsperaGlobal @gabedelgadoa @syrtsov_ivan @mikeHND @RubenFajardoM nice, destroying more nature so a few barefoot gringos can live in their high towers disconnected from reality...

The future is built brick by brick, building by building… @ProsperaGlobal is built by and for The Builders: entrepreneurs, industrialists, creators, defenders of freedom! @gabedelgadoa @syrtsov_ivan @mikeHND @RubenFajardoM - you’ve got the vision and the grit, keep building!

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By creating the conditions for entrepreneurs and industrialists to build, to create, to satisfy human needs and trade, Prospera drives human flourishing at scale - profitably! prospera.co

250 years ago, the Continental Congress tasked the Committee of Five – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston – with writing a Declaration of Independence. Jefferson’s prose made him the natural choice to pen the first draft.

The United States and our Western Hemisphere neighbors have no shortage of opportunities for mutual growth and cooperation. DFC stands ready to deliver.

Eduardo, Prospera es un proyecto que lejos de quebrantar la soberania Hondureño la amplifica! No solo se mantienen todos los derechos politicos de cada Hondureño (todos!), sino que se crea un espacio de libertad donde la soberanía se amplifica y términos prácticos y reales. Te invito a que escuches esta presentación de Cayetana - la soberanía no es un concepto para proteger la burocracia gubernamental, sino un principio de derechos que tienen los ciudadanos comenzando por la necesidad de tener seguridad y libertad, para poder generar y gozar de la prosperidad humana que todos queremos. Soberanía no es sustituir un rey por politicos que centralizan el poder... Soberanía se mide en proporción que los individuos en una sociedad tengan libertad y prosperidad. Y, en este sentido Prospera es un contribuyente significativo al proyecto de soberanía Hondureña.

@VELibertario @EmmaRincon @erickbrimen Nadie defiende la expropiación arbitraria. Pero hay diferencia entre expropiar y recuperar democráticamente soberanía sobre una ley que nació de un gobierno condenado por corrupción y narcotráfico. Un contrato que no puede renegociarse democráticamente no es libertad

Él es @erickbrimen un empresario VENEZOLANO que creó UNA CIUDAD EMPRESARIAL con 200 millones de dólares en Honduras. Ha creado miles de empleos para los hondureños, llevó el 33% total de la inversión extranjera al país y aún así, el régimen comunista de los Zelaya intentó destruirle, cerrarle y acabar con la principal fuente de innovación y crecimiento para la economía hondureña. ¿La razón? Odian a los ciudadanos libres que no dependen del Estado, odian el empleo y la innovación, los quieren pobres y sumisos al Estado. Aún así "Próspera" la ciudad creada libre creada por Erick, logró sobrevivir los años del comunismo, y ahora se prepara para invertir 1.000 millones de dólares en la próxima década, con el objetivo de que crear más ciudades libres y empresariales. Si quieren ver el podcast completo y conocer la historia de Erick, los invito a verlo en mi canal de Rumble, el enlace está en mi perfil. También los invito a seguir a Erick aquí en X, esta es su cuenta @erickbrimen. En sus planes también está la inversión e implementación de su modelo de negocio en la Venezuela libre que se aproxima.

HNDs ha sido un país de retos y oportunidades. Ahora existe una oportunidad única de enderezar lo que se hizo chueco, y desde ahí proyectar solidez y esperanza! Una herramienta que funcionó bajo condiciones difíciles, funcionará mucho mejor bajo condiciones adecuadas. ¡Vamos Honduras! ¡Apostémosle a la prosperidad! ¡Trabajemos juntos por un Honduras Próspera!

@Lali_bertad_ @EmmaRincon Siempre es bueno tener competencia descentralizada - es lo que inspira mejoramiento y protege contra la entropía.

@EmmaRincon @erickbrimen En un país con libertades para los empresarios no debería ser necesaria una ciudad así. Solo hace falta cuando tienes socialistas drenandote con impuestos, dígase Honduras, España, Uruguay…

.@DFC_CEO at @ASCOA: “That is going to be one of the primary goals in my tenure as CEO: To make sure we're getting capital and dollars into the Americas and really developing these as greater allies and business partners for not just the next 3 to 5 years, but the next 10 to 50.”