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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
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©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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    GCipriano_20081028_PEPSICO_RETAIL-Ta...jpg
  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 28 October, 2008. Hawthorne, NY. Interior of a Target supermarket at the PepsiCo Retail Lab.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Amy Jo Dimaglio (41, Coordinator of the seafood program) shucks an oyster at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th, 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Amy Jo Dimaglio (41, Coordinator of the seafood program) shucks an oyster at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th, 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Lynn Clurman points out the turkey primavera spiedini to Whole Foods employee Casid Narvaez, 32.  A new assortment of kabobs and spiedini is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today,  on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Lynn Clurman looks at the new assortment of kabobs and spiedini that is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today,  on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Whole Foods employee Casid Narvaez, 32, arranges the new assortment of kabobs and spiedini that is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today,  on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Whole Foods employee Casid Narvaez, 32, arranges the flanks that are displayed. A new assortment of kabobs and spiedini is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today,  on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Two elderly women look at the new assortment of kabobs and spiedini that is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca, on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY.  (L-R) - Flank with sundried tomatoes, pesto and provolone cheese; Spinach sundried tomato, mustard panko crusted rack of lamb and Pork bunderloin caprese are displayed. A new assortment of kabobs and spiedini is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. (L-R) - Chimmichurri beef kabobs; Kung Pao beef kabobs; Smoky tomato beef and portobello kabobs; Beef spiedini arugula and Flank with bleu cheese and asparagus  are displayed. A new assortment of kabobs and spiedini is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today,  on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Flank with bleu cheese and asparagus (center), beef spiedini arugula (left) and flank with sundried tomatoes, pesto and provolone cheese (right) are displayed. A new assortment of kabobs and spiedini is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers shop at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca on July 9th, 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. A customer points out the wild gulf shrimp on display at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Clams are on display for customers at the shucking station at the seafood section of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Amy Jo Dimaglio (41, Coordinator of the seafood program) picks some oysters to shuck at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Amy Jo Dimaglio (41, Coordinator of the seafood program) shucks an oyster at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th, 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers wait to be served at the shucking station at the seafood section of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th, 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customers in front of the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods in Tribeca. A new assortment of kabobs and spiedini is presented at the meat and poultry section of the Whole Foods Market, which opened in Tribeca today,  on July 9th 2008.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Bia Rich, a 33 year old resident of Tribeca, observes a Whole Foods employee serving her oysters at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Amy Jo Dimaglio (41, Coordinator of the seafood program) shucks an oyster at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
<br />
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  • 9 July, 2008. New York, NY. Customer Tara Ramroop waits for her oysters to be shucked at the shucking station of the new Whole Foods that opened in Tribeca today, on July 9th 2008. "I never bought them because I was never able to open them. Now I can eat them!" Tara Ramroop says, who lives in the neighborhood. The shucking station for oysters and clams is a new feature of the Whole Foods Market.<br />
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  • MONTEGRANARO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2019: A nine-story apartment block above a supermarket, entirely vacant save for one unit, is seen here in Montegranaro, Italy, on November 28th 2019.<br />
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Montegranaro is a hilltop town that has seen its 600 footwear companies cut down to 150. The town’s population has dropped from about 14,000 two decades ago to 13,000 today, and about 1,000 are now immigrants -- Albanians, Africans, Chinese. According to Mauro Lucentini, this is not a trend to be proud of. The Africans loiter the streets, drunkenly harassing women, he says: “The Nigerians are savages.”<br />
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Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around.
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  • MONTEGRANARO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2019: A nine-story apartment block above a supermarket, entirely vacant save for one unit, is seen here in Montegranaro, Italy, on November 28th 2019.<br />
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Montegranaro is a hilltop town that has seen its 600 footwear companies cut down to 150. The town’s population has dropped from about 14,000 two decades ago to 13,000 today, and about 1,000 are now immigrants -- Albanians, Africans, Chinese. According to Mauro Lucentini, this is not a trend to be proud of. The Africans loiter the streets, drunkenly harassing women, he says: “The Nigerians are savages.”<br />
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Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around.
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  • PRATO, ITALY - 26 NOVEMBER 2019: A Chinese truck drivers pulls out of the parking lot of a Chinese supermarket after delivering goods, in the Chinatown of Prato, Italy, on November 26th 2019.<br />
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Today, roughly one-tenth of the city’s 200,000 inhabitants are Chinese immigrants who have arrived legally, while many estimates put the total number at 45,000 after accounting for those without proper documents. <br />
Chinese grocery stores and restaurants have emerged to serve the local population. On the outskirts of the city, Chinese entrepreneurs oversee warehouses teeming with racks of clothing destined for markets across the continent. Estimates have it that 80 percent of clothing sold in street markets within the European Union is made by Chinese workers in Prato.<br />
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Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around. <br />
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Between 2001 and 2011, Prato’s 6,000 textile companies shrunk to 3,000, and those employed by the plants plunged from 40,000 to 19,000, according to Confindustria, the leading Italian industrial trade association. As Prato’s factories went dark, people began arriving from China - mostly from the coastal city of Wenzhou, famed for its industriousness - to exploit an opportunity.<br />
They set up sewing machines across the concrete floors and imported fabric from factories in China. They sewed clothes, cannily imitating the styles of Italian fashion br
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  • 8 January, 2009. Vicchio, FI, Italy. Workers at the cheese counter of the Il Forteto supermarket. The Agricultura Cooperativa "Il Forteto" is a lauded producer of traditional Italian cheeses, recognized world over for their pecorino, winning first place of all DOP cheese at Tuttofood International in Milan for their Pecorino Oro Antico, and a gold medal in the Hard DOP Cheese class at 2009's World Cheese Awards in Gran Canaria.<br />
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©2009 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
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  • 8 January, 2009. Vicchio, FI, Italy. The butcher of the Il Forteto supermarket. The Agricultura Cooperativa "Il Forteto" is a lauded producer of traditional Italian cheeses, recognized world over for their pecorino, winning first place of all DOP cheese at Tuttofood International in Milan for their Pecorino Oro Antico, and a gold medal in the Hard DOP Cheese class at 2009's World Cheese Awards in Gran Canaria.<br />
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©2009 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: The shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products, owned by Arianna Esposito's parents, who both died due to complications from the coronavirus, is seen here in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
<br />
“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organiza
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A man parks his Porsche car at the side entrance of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
<br />
The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
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<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and busine
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A sign of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
<br />
The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have lon
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
<br />
The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
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<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have lon
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: An interior view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: An interior view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
<br />
The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have lon
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 15 APRIL 2020: (R-L) A volunteer delivers groceries to a needy family in Naples, Italy, on April 15th 2020. Volunteers gathered at the "Sgarrupato",  an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization,  distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200415_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 15 APRIL 2020: (R-L) A volunteer delivers groceries to a needy family in Naples, Italy, on April 15th 2020. Volunteers gathered at the "Sgarrupato",  an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization,  distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200415_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Arianna Esposito (27), who lost both parents due to complications from the coronavirus, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
<br />
“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Arianna Esposito (27), who lost both parents due to complications from the coronavirus, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
<br />
“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Arianna Esposito (27), who lost both parents due to complications from the coronavirus, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
<br />
“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Arianna Esposito (27), who lost both parents due to complications from the coronavirus, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
<br />
“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Arianna Esposito (27), who lost both parents due to complications from the coronavirus, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
<br />
“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: The shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products, owned by Arianna Esposito's parents, who both died due to complications from the coronavirus, is seen here in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
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“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organiza
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: A view of Naples and Mount Vesuvius is seen here in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Mario Palumbo (32),  a cook that had a short-time contract that did not get renewed as the restaurant's business dropped in March, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Mario Palumbo lives with his mother and his sister in a council flat in Naples' outskirts. As the epidemic hit Italy, the three found themselves only relying on the 300 basic income check his mother receives every month. Mr. Palumbo, who dropped out of school in 10th grade to provide for his family after his father died. His sister, 27, who worked off the book in a clothes shop that had to close, is not eligible for unemployment benefits or state help. <br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Mario Palumbo (32),  a cook that had a short-time contract that did not get renewed as the restaurant's business dropped in March, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Mario Palumbo lives with his mother and his sister in a council flat in Naples' outskirts. As the epidemic hit Italy, the three found themselves only relying on the 300 basic income check his mother receives every month. Mr. Palumbo, who dropped out of school in 10th grade to provide for his family after his father died. His sister, 27, who worked off the book in a clothes shop that had to close, is not eligible for unemployment benefits or state help. <br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Mario Palumbo (32),  a cook that had a short-time contract that did not get renewed as the restaurant's business dropped in March, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Mario Palumbo lives with his mother and his sister in a council flat in Naples' outskirts. As the epidemic hit Italy, the three found themselves only relying on the 300 basic income check his mother receives every month. Mr. Palumbo, who dropped out of school in 10th grade to provide for his family after his father died. His sister, 27, who worked off the book in a clothes shop that had to close, is not eligible for unemployment benefits or state help. <br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Mario Palumbo (32),  a cook that had a short-time contract that did not get renewed as the restaurant's business dropped in March, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Mario Palumbo lives with his mother and his sister in a council flat in Naples' outskirts. As the epidemic hit Italy, the three found themselves only relying on the 300 basic income check his mother receives every month. Mr. Palumbo, who dropped out of school in 10th grade to provide for his family after his father died. His sister, 27, who worked off the book in a clothes shop that had to close, is not eligible for unemployment benefits or state help. <br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Mario Palumbo (32),  a cook that had a short-time contract that did not get renewed as the restaurant's business dropped in March, poses for a portrait in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Mario Palumbo lives with his mother and his sister in a council flat in Naples' outskirts. As the epidemic hit Italy, the three found themselves only relying on the 300 basic income check his mother receives every month. Mr. Palumbo, who dropped out of school in 10th grade to provide for his family after his father died. His sister, 27, who worked off the book in a clothes shop that had to close, is not eligible for unemployment benefits or state help. <br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: (L-R) Volunteer Filomena Cesareo (46) delivers groceries to a needy families in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Volunteers gathered at the "Sgarrupato",  an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization,  distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: (R-L) Volunteers Filomena Cesareo (46) and Kalina Wojcieszek (28) distribute groceries to needy families in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Volunteers gathered at the "Sgarrupato",  an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization,  distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Volunteers are seen here on their way to distribute groceries to needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Volunteers are seen here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: A woman received groceries donated by the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020:  Volunteer Andrea Rubén Pomella, a 31 years old PhD in anthropoly, walks up the stairs to deliver groceries to a needy family in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Volunteers gathered at the "Sgarrupato",  an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization,  distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020:  Volunteer Andrea Rubén Pomella, a 31 years old PhD in anthropoly,  delivers groceries to needy families in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Volunteers gathered at the "Sgarrupato",  an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization,  distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: The 59 years old baker Biagio Grimaldi donates 30 breads each day to the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization who distributes groceries to needy families in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Volunteers are seen preparing grocery bags for needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Volunteers are seen preparing grocery bags for needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Volunteers are seen preparing grocery bags for needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: A banner in support of a quarantine income is seen here outside the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
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The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: (L-R) Activists and volunteers Oksana Olynyk (39) and Luigi Volpe (46) organise the distribution of groceries to needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Volunteers are seen preparing grocery bags for needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Antonio Pastore (46), a volunteer, carries grocery bags for needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: Volunteers are seen preparing grocery bags for needy families here at the "Sgarrupato", an abandoned church seized by the "Movimento 7 Novembre" community organization in Montesanto, a working class neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. They distribute between 100 and 150 grocery bags each day, by providing food to approximately 600 families who have lost an income due to the coronavirus in Naples.<br />
<br />
Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2020: A usually congested street is seen here in Naples, Italy, on April 13th 2020.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200413_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2020: (L-R) Artist and tobacconist Anna Fusco (47) waits for homeless people to come and pick up their daily meals prepared by volunteers in Naples, Italy, on April 13th 2020. Anna Fusco is the owner of the oldest tobacco shop in the heart of Naples. After the lockdown, as her profits dropped 90%, she noticed homeless people wandering the city centre not knowing where to find food. Together with her husband Ciro and her brother-in-law Vincenzo, she started preparing meals to distribute in front of her tobacco shop. In just a few days, dozens of volunteers took part of the initiative. At the time being, they distribute between 80 and 110 meals per day.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief pa
    CIPG_20200413_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2020: (L-R) Artist and tobacconist Anna Fusco (47) and her husband Ciro Esposito (40) distribute a homemade meal prepared by a volunteer to a homeless man in Naples, Italy, on April 13th 2020. Anna Fusco is the owner of the oldest tobacco shop in the heart of Naples. After the lockdown, as her profits dropped 90%, she noticed homeless people wandering the city centre not knowing where to find food. Together with her husband Ciro and her brother-in-law Vincenzo, she started preparing meals to distribute in front of her tobacco shop. In just a few days, dozens of volunteers took part of the initiative. At the time being, they distribute between 80 and 110 meals per day.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s t
    CIPG_20200413_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 APRIL 2020: A man walks in the usually packed Pignasecca market in Naples, Italy, on April 12th 2020.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200412_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 APRIL 2020: Flavia Brescia (46) and her daughter Angela (10), are seen here at home wrapping 15 meals that will be distributed to homeless people by a group of volunteers in Naples, Italy, on April 12th 2020.<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organizations that have long infiltrated the black market, the health systems and many other facets of southern life are seeking to exploit the crisis by substituting reluctant banks as providers of loans and, in some cases, food.<br />
<br />
The existence of the widespread use off-the-books workers in the South’s vibrant “street economy,” meant that the lockdowns hit hard families that had no access to the government’s targeted relief packages.
    CIPG_20200412_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
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