I've had several conversations now with representatives of governments in different countries. One of the things that has become very apparent is that you might have a country that gained independence and the former colonizer left, but corporate interests didn't. What I mean by neo-colonialism is, rather than state action or government action to control via a governor the affairs of a particular country, you have large multinational companies or wealthy individuals from, oftentimes, the former colonizer coming in and seeking to interfere with the elections in a way such that resources, for example, can continue to be extracted in a way that is conducive for business interests in that former colonizer. What I meant by that is that colonialism still happens in a lot of these places, it just doesn't look like the form that it did 100 years ago.
On May 29th, 2018. See this statement in context.