Thousands took the streets in Amendolara, Calabria region, in Italy Saturday to protest the brutal murder of four migrant farm workers the week before. The workers were burned alive in their vehicle by drug traffickers linked to Italy’s organized crime network, after they had challenged them over unpaid wages. The sole survivor, who managed to escape, said they had been forced to work without pay and threatened with guns and knives. The attack has brought about a reckoning with the country’s agricultural industry, where criminal gangs recruit foreign laborers into an extremely exploitative work system.

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