Tag: Bust
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Concession Dilemma: A Boon for Corporations or a Path to National Prosperity?
Liberia stands at a pivotal crossroads. As one of the world’s ten poorest nations yet endowed with vast natural resources, the West African country has long relied on concession agreements with foreign corporations to spur economic development. These deals, particularly in mining and agriculture, promise significant foreign investment, job creation, and infrastructure development. However, they…
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🇵🇦 Operation Just Cause, Colonial Logic: How the Panama Invasion Previewed the Weaponization of “Drug Wars” in the Global South
The 1989 US ouster of Manuel Noriega was less a noble drug bust and more a blueprint for how Washington would replace Cold War demons with new justifications for intervention, sovereignty violation, and political control. In the final days of 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the world heralded the end of the Cold…