CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

Safety depends on more than surveillance cameras and police patrols. It is also built through community ties, collective care, and the right to transform our cities. A reflection on territory, coexistence, and power.

On the streets of Recoleta, sexual exploitation coexisted with tourism, commerce, and state institutions. Through Henri Lefebvre, the story of two brothels reveals how urban space is produced, controlled, and contested.

Behind Cosa Nostra's murders lay business interests, political alliances, and structures of power. Rocco Chinnici helped uncover these connections and transform the way the Italian judiciary investigated the Mafia.

Selling a confiscated asset can recover money. Returning it to society can mean much more: reclaiming territory, rebuilding communities, and transforming what was once a source of criminal power into public value.

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.

The story of Peppino Impastato, the young Sicilian who challenged Cosa Nostra through satire and radio. His fight against the Mafia, his murder in 1978, and the power of laughter to confront fear and Mafia violence.

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.

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.

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.

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.