Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister
Several weeks after Ivanka Trump unveiled a real estate venture with husband Jared Kushner for a proposed multibillion-dollar resort on Albania’s coastline, the project has become the focal point of a mass uprising in the country. Furious demonstrators have filled the capital’s streets under signs declaring: “Albania is not a Gucci bag on sale.”
What began as a localized fight against what critics describe as an alleged land grab has evolved to widespread outrage over potential damage to the region’s protected coastal wildlife, culminating this week with hundreds of thousands of Albanians taking to the streets of Tirana, the capital, to demand the end of the country’s government as they know it. Protesters have sworn to keep going until their demands are met.
Objection to the Trump-Kushner plans began at ground level on May 23, when word got out of a proposed development in the Zvërnec area—some 9 miles away...
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