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

Lucas Manjon


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

Lucas Manjon


When society took the land away from the mafia
From the fields of Sicily, the social reuse of confiscated goods became one of the most innovative policies. Today it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Lucas Manjon


When the Narco Became Flexible
The decentralized production of synthetic drugs transformed the logic of the drug war.

Lucas Manjon


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

Lucas Manjon


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

Lucas Manjon


It’s the economy, stupid: fentanyl, drugs, and accumulation
Fentanyl made it possible to reduce costs, expand supply, and massify consumption. When pain becomes a business and turns into an opportunity.

Lucas Manjon


Cesare Terranova: the judge who saw the mafia as power
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.

Lucas Manjon


The Market of the Brain and the Culture of Illegality
Data, attention and desire: Big Tech turns private life into a commodity and shapes consumption, politics, culture and organized crime.

Lucas Manjon


Emanuela Loi: the antimafia bodyguard
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.

Lucas Manjon & Giulia Baruzzo


Laura Bonaparte and the first line of defense against organized crime
The recovery of people with drug addiction issues is the key policy in the fight against organized crime.

Lucas Manjon


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

Lucas Manjon


Giovanni Falcone: the anti-mafia scientist
Pioneer in complex investigations such as drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and corruption through the pursuit of money.

Lucas Manjon


History and tools in the fight against the mafia
So far, the State has failed to provide effective—let alone innovative—responses to this phenomenon. In Italy, however, with the support of organized civil society and broad sectors of the political and judicial systems, efforts have been underway for nearly seventy years to develop a series of logical, modern, and interconnected tools to confront mafia organizations and to restore key democratic values that are eroded by mafia activity—chief among them, the public’s trust in

Lucas Manjon


The thin red line
From Drug Cartels to Criminal Organizations. The Changing Landscape in Rosario Echoes What Happened in Sicily.

Lucas Manjon


Low-rank soldier
Story about a kid (or not) from Greater Rosario.

Florencia Sequeira


Lea Garofalo: the revolution of the mothers
Lea Garofalo was one of the first women who tirelessly sought to break away from the fate that her family and her town had laid out for her. The deaths and the birth of her daughter would change her life forever and give her a new purpose: to save herself in order to save her daughter. Here is part of her story.

Lucas Manjon & Giulia Baruzzo


Rita Atria: the anti-mafia girl
Born into a Sicilian mafia family in the 1970s, Rita Atria defied the fate that Cosa Nostra had mapped out for her simply because she was a woman. Here is part of her story.

Lucas Manjon & Giulia Baruzzo


Rossella Casini: the face of history
The story of Rossella Casini is a story of women—of many women: her own story, that of her mother, her friends, and her university classmates; also that of her sister-in-law and of those who decided her fate. Here is part of her story.

Lucas Manjon & Giulia Baruzzo


Chico Mendes: son of the rainforest, bastard child of progress
The son of a rubber tapper in the Amazon rainforest, he began working before the age of ten. He became a representative of the workers, whom he rallied to the cause of environmental protection, promoting the idea that progress could be achieved in a balanced and sustainable way. He stood up to the military government, to landowners, and to criminals. Here is part of his story.

Lucas Manjon
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