The euphoria of Lebanon’s October revolution evaporated in 2020. Economic collapse and the coronavirus pandemic mortally wounded hopes for change, and the final nail in the country’s coffin seemed to come with the Beirut port blast. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports from Beirut.
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