CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

In the greater Buenos Aires area, territorial disputes between gangs are adding homemade machine guns and a new dimension of violence in San Martín.

Military occupation is no longer the only way to erode sovereignty. In the 21st century, criminal organizations contest authority over territories and force us to think about restoring state authority beyond security and social assistance.

Italy has just enacted into law an initiative born more than a decade ago that seeks to protect children, adolescents, young people, and women who choose to break away from family environments linked to organized crime.

Born to control the security forces, the Ministry of Security never succeeded in developing a comprehensive strategy. Its origins, limitations, and challenges in confronting organized crime.

The danger of laughing at men who need to be feared: the story of a rebellion built on ridicule.

Violence is not evenly distributed: it follows the structure of the market. Between Mexico and Argentina, that difference reveals two distinct forms of organization within the same global chain.

In Palermo, a law changed the relationship between the state and the mafia. Pio La Torre was one of its driving forces.

From the fields of Sicily, the social reuse of confiscated goods became one of the most innovative policies. Today it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Drug trafficking no longer depends on large cartels: technology and the circulation of know-how enable a decentralized model in which small actors produce and sell drugs.

The decentralized production of synthetic drugs transformed the logic of the drug war.

How the State’s fragmented and uncoordinated response to drug trafficking resembles the Luddite logic: destroying instruments without transforming structures.

The debate on the age of criminal responsibility requires evidence, institutional capacity, and victim support — not urgent responses without real ability to implement them.

Organized crime, exception, and power: an analysis of how security becomes a political argument in contemporary democracies.

Since the 21st century, global crises have entrenched a politics of fear that cut rights and weakened democracy; in Latin America, drug trafficking revives old forms of interference.

Fentanyl made it possible to reduce costs, expand supply, and massify consumption. When pain becomes a business and turns into an opportunity.

In the 1960s, Cesare Terranova was the first judge to state that the Mafia was not a series of isolated crimes but a system of power infiltrating politics and the economy.

Data, attention and desire: Big Tech turns private life into a commodity and shapes consumption, politics, culture and organized crime.

Emanuela Loi was the first female bodyguard killed by the mafia. She was 24 years old when she died alongside Borsellino in the Via D’Amelio massacre.

Don Giuseppe "Peppe" Diana was an Italian priest who dedicated his life to the fight against the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia.

Pioneer in complex investigations such as drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and corruption through the pursuit of money.