The Flamingo Revolution: Why Albania Is Protesting a Trump Family Resort

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For an eighth consecutive day on Sunday, thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana and along the Adriatic coast, holding pink cardboard flamingos and chanting against their own government. The trigger is a luxury resort project backed by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump that, in its critics' view, has come to symbolize everything that has gone wrong with how Albania does business: opaque deals, environmental concessions, and the impression that foreign celebrity investors can simply