Following the US-backed coup in Honduras in 2009, the floodgates for selling off Honduran land and natural resources to transnational and national corporations blew open. 
Kufuatia suala la kutekwa kimamlaka kwa serikali ya Hodnuras na Marekani mwaka 2009, umilikishaji wa ardhi ya Hodnuras pamoja na maliasili kwa makampuni ya nje na ya ndani ulishamiri.