Barbie Latza Nadeau is an U.S. journalist who has covered Italy for more than 20 years. She is the author of “Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast,” about Nigerian women trafficked for sex into Italy. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/barbie-latza-nadeau/rss en Crises & Conflicts Health Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:43:29 +0000 Barbie Latza Nadeau https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/11/14/i-watched-peoples-faces-turn-from-fear-to-peace-as-they-drowned https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/11/14/i-watched-peoples-faces-turn-from-fear-to-peace-as-they-drowned In this firsthand account of a day aboard the rescue ship Aquarius in the central Mediterranean, some lives are saved but others lost. Survivors testify to the diverse motives of migrants and the intense suffering on land in Libya.