People stand in line for bread outside a bakery in Beirut in June 2020. (Hassan Ammar / Associated Press)
Los Angeles: Lebanon's people line up in 'queues of humiliation' as their country unravels
Fill ’er up? Be ready to wait in line at least an hour — assuming the gas station is open, that is.
Need medication? Something as basic as aspirin could set you on a daylong hunt from pharmacy to pharmacy.
Even a grocery run is an ever-accelerating race against ballooning prices and a failing currency. And whatever you do, you’ll need to time it around power cuts that can last up to 23 hours a day.
This is life in Lebanon these days, where a 21-month-long, government-engineered economic implosion — the World Bank calls it “a deliberate depression” — has transformed everyday tasks into a gantlet of fuel, power, water, medicine and basic goods shortages that residents dub tawabeer al-thul, or “queues of humiliation.”
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WNU Editor: I experienced this type of life in the former Soviet Union. My blood still boils when I remember those times.
2 comments:
Not violating Godwin's rule here.
Hitler ran 2 armies, the Wehrmacht and the SS.
Lebanon runs two militaries and who knows what else, Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army.
Hezbollah takes funds from the government to run their alternate or supplementary social services?
There is a dual system in Lebanon, which is wasteful of resources. It is good for Hezbollah for awhile.
The deleterious affects of Hezbollah is more than just their starting wars with Israel or causing the Maronites and Sunnis to have to divert money to bulk up on defense due to the Shia threat.
I blame Nasrallah, Iran and Obama.
Couldn't agree more, 12:27.
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