In the calculus of human misery, few things match the cold-blooded depravity of the international organ trade. It is an enterprise that requires not just unscrupulous criminals, but a specific kind of ecosystem: a desperate pool of impoverished victims, an institutional culture of corruption, and a state apparatus that either looks the other way or is too hollowed out to enforce its own laws. Today, that toxic intersection finds its capital in L…
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