What Happens When American Billionaires Build A Private City In Your Country

What Happens When American Billionaires Build A Private City In Your Country

April 28, 2025

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"Gaza's waterfront property, it could be very valuable to, if people would focus on kind of building up, you know, livelihoods. I think from Israel's perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up."

~Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, in an interview at Harvard University (Feb. 2024)

"You know, Gaza is interesting. It's a phenomenal location, on the sea, best weather. You know, everything is good. It's like, some beautiful things could be done with it. It's very interesting. Some fantastic things could be done with Gaza."

~Donald Trump, speaking on stealing Palestinian land (Jan. 25, 2025)

Why are tech billionaires with ties to Donald Trump funding a private, for-profit city on a small Honduran island?

Dena Takruri traveled to Próspera, the most controversial "startup city” in the world. Some say it’s a free market crypto-utopia that will lift Hondurans out of poverty. But others say it’s nothing more than an experiment in modern-day colonialism.

00:00 Introduction
3:29 Dena visits Próspera
7:26 Why Próspera is controversial
8:37 A history of U.S. corporations exploiting Honduras
9:28 What critics say about Próspera
11:23 Who’s behind the global private city movement
14:14 Dena visits the nearby Crawfish Rock community
17:14 Conclusion

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