Marco Vernaschi is an italian photokournalist born in Turin, Italy, in 1973. He began his long-term project to document the major illegal activities behind terrorism with his project “West Africa’s New Achilles’ Heel”, on cocaine trafficking, with the overall goal of showing how unaware consumers in the West support international terrorism.
His work with the Pulitzer Center documents the effects of cocaine trafficking in West Africa, showing how criminal networks led by Hezbollah and Al Qaeda destroyed a whole country in just a few [...]