The failure of the Arab Spring created hardened political regimes all around us. This is bad news because in our fast changing world we need political, economic and social adaptation.
The epidemic was an opportunity for the Algerian authorities to isolate everything they deemed to be “germs”, the proliferation of which poses a threat to the repressive system. They exploited the quarantine to continue neutralizing the “disharmony” by tightening supervision…
The case has escalated and echoed back in Algeria, as the Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune orders the opening of a judicial investigation about the adulterated fuel case between Algeria and Lebanon.
The spoiled fuel scandal is a result of the commercial practices of the “Sonatrach” executives in collusion with Lebanese merchants, both of which were condoned by the relevant authorities in both Algeria and Lebanon.
