A world apart, Lebanon and Sri Lanka share economic collapse

FILE- A protester covers her face with a scarf as she blocks a main highway during a protest against the increase in prices of consumer goods and the crash of the local currency, in the town of Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, March 8, 2021. Lebanon and Sri Lanka may be a world apart, but they share a history of political turmoil and violence that led to the collapse of once-prosperous economies bedeviled by corruption, patronage, nepotism and incompetence. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)