After The Health Crisis Comes Poverty, Italy Warns The World

Many Italians are now being forced to accept aid from criminal organizations who are capitalizing on the government's delays and those fearing to expose their involvement in undeclared work. The Mafia has been distributing food packages and providing loans in the South of Italy, in a move 'to exploit the desperation of the new poor from coronavirus,' according to the mayor of the Sicilian capital Palermo, Leoluca Orlando.