PULITZER CENTER - MARCO VERNASCHI - Project Launched

Dear Friends,

West Africa’s New Achilles’ Heel, Marco Vernaschi’s last project, is now on-line at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: http://www.pulitzercenter.org/showproject.cfm?id=114

Cocaine trafficking has turned Guinea Bissau into Africa’s first narco-state, and a lucrative source of cash for Hezbollah and al Qaida as well as South American drug cartels. The double assassinations last March of the country’s president and army chief of staff may have been the point of no return as this tiny country sinks into a new era of conflict. Photojournalist Marco Vernaschi was on assignment
in Guinea Bissau at the time of the double assassinations. His searing photographs and field dispatches, and unforgettable portrait of a society destroyed by drugs, will appear in Untold Stories – Pulitzer Center over the next two weeks.

Available, so far:

1- Guinea Bissau: Double Assassination

http://pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2009/06/guinea-bissau-double-assassination-.html

2- A Bomb, Privates Jets and Cocaine

http://pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2009/06/guinea-bissau-a-bomb-private-jets-and-cocaine.html

These are just two of eight dispatches, recounting events surrounding the double assassinations of Guinea Bissau’s president and army chief of staff last March and the country’s emergence as a ‘narco state.’ More chapters from Marco Vernaschi’s investigation on the Hezbollah-Al Qaida “narco-connection” will be published over this and next week – so, stay tuned for more!

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All best,

Zoe Livingston

by Marco Vernaschi at Thu Jun 18 21:28:51 UTC 2009 Buenos aires, Argentina | Bookmark | | Report spam→