NGOs and parachute journalists exchanged traditional ‘poverty porn’ for something equally problematic.
![As I viewed the photographs and read the stories that are part of the Indestructibles exhibition, I couldn’t help but think of Colombian filmmakers Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo's 1977 mockumentary The Vampires of Poverty, writes Di Ricco [screen grab/indestructiblesafrica.org]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/image-10035.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
NGOs and parachute journalists exchanged traditional ‘poverty porn’ for something equally problematic.
![As I viewed the photographs and read the stories that are part of the Indestructibles exhibition, I couldn’t help but think of Colombian filmmakers Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo's 1977 mockumentary The Vampires of Poverty, writes Di Ricco [screen grab/indestructiblesafrica.org]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/image-10035.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Silvia Romano kidnapped in Kenya faced a hostile welcome when she returned to Italy.

A wave of right-wing politics is sweeping through Latin America and affecting its support for Palestine.

After decades of murky state-mafia relations, many Italians are now used to living with mafias.
![Quartieri Spagnoli is a part of the city of Naples in Italy, a poor area, suffering from high unemployment and strong influence of Camorra [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/884757c83f1241abae4c4ab81cca317e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Latin American Muslims seem immune to radicalism and ISIL’s global recruitment campaign – but for how much longer?

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![Two former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay stand on a balcony decorated with Uruguay's flag in Montevideo [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2014121493817390580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)