Live from Italy: Politics and Pandemic. Today we talk to Professor Francesco Mazzucotelli from Bergamo, Italy, the center of the Italian COVID-19 outbreak, about the situation there and about the Italian health care system, Italian politics, and the global environment that has led to this crisis. Please share. Please follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and we encourage you to donate at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast

Francesco Mazzucotelli is a Professor of  Turkish and Middle Eastern History at the Universita di Pavia.  He took his Ph.D from the Universita Cattolica del Sacre Muore di Milano and the American University of Beirut.  He has been a journalist stationed in the Middle East and was a senate candidate in 2018 for the Liberi e Uguali party in Italy.  He currently lives in Bergamo, Italy.