Root Cause of Distraction

This appears to be American aid, but the underlying motivation is anything but altruistic.

Data centres were the subject of vitriol, not praise.

[T]he relationship between Mexico and the United States is going through moments that are, yes, both tense and complicated, but above all, quite strange.

Bell argued that [the rise of far right factions] should be understood less as a straightforward product of economic conflict than as a response to social dislocation and anxiety over status.