He said that given how interconnected the region is, Honduras can isolate, and hurt itself,in as he put it, some pretty dramatic ways.

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It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05