Die Trump-Familie löst in Albanien eine Revolution aus

Isaac Stanley-Becker: Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have joined daily protests against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s luxury development plans “in one of the country’s largest social mobilizations since the end of Communist rule 35 years ago. The uprising, called the Flamingo Revolution, takes its name from the wild birds that breed in the wetland habitat. Protesters have carried inflatable flamingos and placards with drawings.

“The unrest has it all: accusations of organized crime and drug trafficking, competing claims of foreign influence, a cameo by Kanye West. For the participants I spoke with, the demonstrations are about accumulated frustration with Albanian politicians who have failed to give the country a solid economic foundation. ‘You can interpret it as an anti-Trump demonstration in the sense that it’s opposed to a Trump-like system we see here,’ Fatos Lubonja, a writer and dissident who was imprisoned during Albania’s Communist dictatorship, told me: ‘government decisions made in secret, for the benefit of the few, motivated by money linked to oligarchs.’ …

“Today marks the 54th consecutive day of protests triggered by the Trump-family development project. Few would have pegged Albania as the center of the international anti-Trump opposition. But a tour through the country’s recent history suggests that it isn’t as unlikely as it appears.”

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I guess they’re getting the regime change they wanted. Just a bit of a miss on geography