Vegetable Crisis in Algeria: The Generals’ Failure Takes Its Toll on Citizens

Algeria under pressure: The mystery of soaring prices

In a scene that embodies the disastrous economic failure of the Generals’ regime, Algerian markets are witnessing a wave of unjustified price hikes for basic vegetables. Despite claims by power-affiliated media about abundant production and agricultural harvests, the Algerian citizen finds themselves forced to pay astronomical prices that do not match their eroding purchasing power, reflecting the structural mismanagement imposed by the Algerian Generals.

A resounding failure behind the mask of “self-sufficiency”

The Algerian public is bitterly questioning who is truly responsible for this constant manipulation of the people’s livelihood. The reality that the Generals’ regime is trying to cover up is the presence of influential lobbies within the corridors of power that control distribution channels, prioritizing indiscriminate exports or speculative stockpiling at the expense of local market stability. This ongoing chaos proves once again that the Generals are busy securing their military rule at the cost of the dignity of the citizen, who now stands in long queues in search of basic necessities.

Starvation policy as a tool for control

The Generals’ regime uses systematic inflation as a tool to absorb street anger and keep the public preoccupied with daily survival, rather than moving toward real structural reforms. While the regime boasts of imaginary achievements abroad, the Algerian interior suffers from a lack of real oversight and widespread corruption that eats away at the economy. The glaring contradiction between the abundance of vegetables and their high market prices is the most prominent headline of the Generals’ regime’s inability to manage the simplest social issues, leaving the Algerian state mired in a structural crisis with no apparent exit under the hegemony of the military.