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Desperate Straits

Corrupt reality of the refugee crisis in Italy

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Many African refugees headed for Italy find themselves between a rock and a hard place. In Libya, human traffickers enslave and extort them to pay for a perilous voyage across the Mediterranean, which, if they make it alive, puts them in the hands of illegal enterprises too lucrative to be exposed.

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