Greece was on the verge of debt crisis for years

I was sitting at an intersection in my uncle’s car in Athens on one of my days off this past April. We were idling in a traffic jam at one of the busiest intersections following another routine general strike by the electric company.

This was the third day without traffic lights city wide. I noticed a motorist get out of his car, approach another, then proceeded to pull the driver out and beat him with a tire iron. I looked at my uncle for some sort of acknowledgment of what had happened. He turned to me as if he had woken up from a daydream. “Forget about it, Alex,” he tells me. “People are just really tense right now.”

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