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.
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