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Albania’s Kushner-linked Flamingo Revolution: What you need to know

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Albania’s Kushner-linked Flamingo Revolution: What you need to know

During the Cold War, quixotic Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha built some 750,000 concrete pillboxes to fend off a phantom invasion that never came. Yet Albania’s bunker-laden landscape may soon feature a pair of luxury resorts, at least if Jared Kushner has his way. The son-in-law of builder-in-chief President Donald Trump is pushing ahead on two […]

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During the Cold War, quixotic Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha built some 750,000 concrete pillboxes to fend off a phantom invasion that never came. Yet Albania’s bunker-laden landscape may soon feature a pair of luxury resorts, at least if Jared Kushner has his way.The son-in-law of builder-in-chief President Donald Trump is pushing ahead on two developments of his own along the Mediterranean waterfront. Frustration with those projects, along with deeper issues of corruption and opaque governance, has sparked the largest popular uprising in Albania since the fall of communism.

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