Marilyn Brautigam resides in Tegulcigapa, Honduras with her husband Harry who is President and Chairman of CABEI, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). The Honduras-based bank has an agenda to back regional development initiatives through carefully targeted project loans and assistance, both in the private and public sectors. CABEI focuses on three core areas – poverty reduction, regional integration and international competitiveness. Its portfolio includes several critical infrastructure projects. Last year, it disbursed a record $1.1bn to projects across the region including the modernization of El Salvador’s roads and Costa Rica’s mobile telephone network.
Marilyn, a former teacher of ESL (English as a Second Language) at Florida International University, is involved with several charitable organizations in Honduras. Because of her husband’s position, she has had unique opportunities for travel throughout the world and has dined with world leaders, including prime ministers, presidents, and ambassadors.
1. What inspired you to become a BoomerScaper?
We live overseas because of my husband’s job, international development banking.
2. Is there a particular story or moment when you realized “I’m not in Kansas anymore”?
The way we live is very restricted—we have bodyguards that stay with us, go with us wherever we go. We have lost privacy because of the nature of the culture we live in, and the post we have been “assigned” to while we are here.
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