Cheap hit piece, if you ask me.

I think there are many neo-colonialist projects in the world where actual force is being used to displace people. Opposed to here where the use of force is described as "armed guards" and "fistfights," in other places people are killed arbitrarily by state-sponsored areal bombing etc. I don't see how you can call both of these things "neo colonialism," as they're pretty different in terms of their specifics, e.g., use of force.

Economic negotiation and privatizing land is not a violent form of displacement. Gentrification is neither. If people in the West don't want their own to go elsewhere and found popup cities, it has to give these people places to experiment on its own soil. Otherwise every Westerner is as responsible for the bad outcomes as those who lead these places.

I think there are many neo-colonialist projects in the world where actual force is being used to displace people. Opposed to here where the use of force is described as "armed guards" and "fistfights,"

+1, also many high-end hotels outside West have armed guards. Will we also call hotels neo-colonialist? And what about digital nomads living in Thailand and Bali?

What's pretty ironic is that in medieval and renaissance Europe some cities were built exactly that way. You had a powerful landowner who built a castle and the city was created around it, as people felt safe thanks to his "armed guards". And he had a considerable authority over local taxes, laws, and trade.

An example of such a city is Zamość, built by then one of the richest aristocrats in Poland.

And yes, it is sad that some local people's life is disrupted by such projects. But it works the same for hotels, highways and airports.

So even if Prospera project was fishy, and there's been some corruption and manipulation there, it doesn't mean that the whole idea of pop up cities is bad.

Yeah sorry but I think if we are actually using Whataboutism to discredit the neocolonialism of crypto, and since crypto is opposed to a nation state's use of force, we have to obviously talk about the various wars which are currently being fought where thousands are killed and displaced by bombs. If you are a Singerist and you actually do care for other people in foreign countries (I pitty u), you should consider it a total waste of time to read an article about a few locals being displaced in Honduras by some rich dudes who just want to try to live longer by injecting shit

Haha yeah, it's pretty ironic it gets so much attention while Putin invades Ukraine and does literal colonialism by sending Russians to live on occupied lands. Or Trump says that the US is about to rebuild Gaza. And these are only Western wars, I imagine there are dozens of other smaller conflicts like that around the world.

Hello from Honduras. This article is so bad and one-side that I don't even have the energy to point by point take it down and its amazing to me that they don't mention that the US has also accused the entire Catro regime of also being Narcos.

It would be great to see Bloomberg UK give actual f*cks about Honduras, a narco-controlled poor country with no rule of law or hope for economic growth and not just a salacious story that conveniently sidesteps many nuances (ie the US and Honduran government are feuding over many things, Prospera is the least of it).