infiniteloop wrote$ crisis began 2 weeks prior to 17 October, in reality when Jammal Trust bank crushed in September 2019, people panicked and converted their lbp to $, it made what is called domino effect on $ availability
In reality the issue began much prior to these dates. I used to work at a bank and approvals for large forex LBP to USD operations were required as early as end 2018. By mid 2019, most large corporate clients were only allowed a few thousand dollars a week of forex. Everything came to light publicly after the 'thawra' began.