On the heels of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández’s arrest by his political opponents, the Marxist husband and wife duo Manuel Zelaya and Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the ruling leaves Próspera, a semi-sovereign charter city home to 235 startups, over 950 employees, and 1,700 citizens — and with over $100m invested by VCs like Balaji Srinivasan, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreesen — in existential limbo. If the Supreme Court does decide that existing ZEDEs are illegal, the Honduran government would effectively renege on its 50-year legal stability agreement included in the law establishing ZEDEs — and designed to provide investors enough confidence to fund Próspera — leaving the city’s backers founders, backers, startups, residents, and employees high and dry.