Perception and characterization of development in the communities of Carrizalón, Copán Ruinas and La Campa, Lempira, western region of Honduras, May-November 2015

Abstract

As part of the research priorities identified by the UNAH and sponsored by the Department of Scientific Research, a field study was conducted during May and November 2015 that describes and interprets the perception people have of development in indigenous Lenca and Chortí communities of the western region of Honduras. This work covered a series of interviews with various leaders and managers of development. Some tools used in this qualitative study were questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, observations, notes and diaries of the investigator. The results show that the development discourse continues interpreted according in terms of economic growth; social practice has penetrated through different means: Local Government, non-governmental organizations, and other development managers involved in good faith in communities. This paper presents a review of the theories that have been hand development as a universal goal, but also criticizes the philosophical foundations that have been premised behind major developmental adjectives that have emerged over the past seven decades. Our purpose is to reflect on the conceptions we have reproduced in our similar contexts. We seek to foster a thought, through cultural deconstruction and epistemological decolonization of development that denature the shameful social exclusion suffered by our people; we are seeking a true cognitive justice, return to postulates of men and women who have loved, studied and served to Honduras and this unequal America.