![Migrants aboard the Cantabria, silent witnesses to the conflict.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/UZWL6UIOPUVBRU5XN3522JMKEU.jpg?auth=dfdcda748024e854b4923bd8d7b4cf8fd6754649566267bc8f90dad6540124d7&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
The battle for the Mediterranean
The gulf between two very different worlds has turned the Mediterranean into a graveyard. Thousands of people die each year trying to cross it. We traveled to the coast of Libya and the black hole of this humanitarian crisis.