Patuca

Experts say Honduras is eyeing large investments from China in infrastructure projects including a new hydroelectric dam, part of a larger plan to construct three dams along the Patuca River.

“������ affected us most here was the flooding. The Barra Patuca sector has been flooded for the last two weeks,” said Teonela Paisano Wood, mayor of the Honduran town of Brus Laguna.

The Patuca III dam is 70 percent completed and could be operational as early as August.

Claudia Aguilar, the project’s head, has noted that Patuca III capitalizes on natural resources “in service of the people.”

The project will bring in about $39 million in gross energy revenue and has already brought increased trade, jobs and business to the 40,000 residents of Patuca and the surrounding areas.