Once we alighted from our cart, we were greeted by women dressed in their colorful native Bai outfits singing a local song, and I was worried we had fallenintoa tourist trap.
Central America has fallenintoa Hobbesian trap: the better-off make private arrangements there are five times as many private security guards as policemen or soldiers in Guatemala, and four times as many in Honduras and therefore block efforts to levy the tax revenues necessary to strengthen the state.
While some hospital executives have commendably used a hospital chain's large size to standardize best practices, others have falleninto the age-old management trap of detaching themselves from the front lines and becoming dangerously out of touch with their own staff.