Farmers in Vietnam are being forced off their land for the equivalent of just one just a few thousand dollars each to make room for a $1.5 billion Trump golf course.

As Vietnam was trying to finalize a trade deal to prevent President Donald Trump from imposing crippling tariffs on Vietnamese products, the country agreed to fast-track approvals to build a Trump-branded golf course on a 2,450-acre site in Hung Yen province, near the capital of Hanoi, Reuters reported.

Originally, the developers—a Vietnamese real estate company called Kinhbah City—had planned to pay thousands of villagers more than $500 million to leave the land, which many have relied on for decades for their livelihoods, according to Reuters.

Now, the farmers are being paid $3,200—less than the average annual salary in

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