Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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The Impacts of a Ban on Mining in El Salvador
The idea of change is coming. It's important to remember that some of the people were very scared of it. A lot of countries did become independent, did have sovereign control. Many became democracies and yet the system that came from these fears and impulses nevertheless was able to be created. How do we think about this system coming out of colonial institutions out of fears of decolonization? How does that interact with norms and maybe realities of sovereignty? Well, our introduction to the system largely came through that unexpected phone call I mentioned that then sent us to El Salvador to look at a particular case and its impacts on the country.
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