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Letizia Battaglia, Who Photographed the Italian Mafia, Dies at 87 

Letizia Battaglia, groundbreaking female photojournalist who fearlessly documented the Mafia’s campaign of terror in her native Sicily, has died at 87 in Palermo.

Mayor Leoluca Orlando said late Wednesday that Letizia Battaglia played "an emblematic part in the process of freeing Palermo from the Mafia's control". On an island where omerta, the code of silence, was all but law, Battaglia used her Leica camera...

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