Lebanon ‘sliding into the abyss’ as politicians fail to break impasse
Boys search garbage containers for valuables and for metal cans that can be resold, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 17, 2021
CRIPPLING United States sanctions, bringing shortages of fuel and medicine across Lebanon, are killing its people, with one citizen telling the Morning Star that they are “not human beings any more.”
As the deepening economic crisis pushes people into poverty, with the currency losing 90 per cent of its value in just 18 months, the hotel worker said that the people of Lebanon “can’t take much more.
“We have no electricity, no benzine [fuel], no medicine; pharmacies are closed, hospitals will close, the cost of basic food is rising.
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