BBC report: Italy smashes transsexual prostitution ring

[SammiValentine]

hard times

[Stavros]

Seems pathetic to me that they use police time and resources to smash a ring when Brazilian transexuals have been doing the Italy run for more than two decades. They never needed an organised crime ring when simple networking among the girls would arrange accomodation, money loaned for the flights etc, although the existence of transexual syndicates within Brazil might also complicate this picture. Nevertheless, in the same amount of time since the Brazilians started arriving in the late 70s, billions of Euros have disappeared into the pockets of the 'ndrangheta, the Mafia and the other crime syndicates, and all the Italians have got to show for it are unfinished motorways, buildings that collapse if you blow hard enough on them, and above all, in too many places, a lack of hope, that things will ever change.