CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

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

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.

Pio La Torre was an Italian politician and trade unionist who became a symbol of the fight against the mafia.

The recovery of people with drug addiction issues is the key policy in the fight against organized crime.

Since the 1970s, the same policies of mass incarceration for those who produce and sell drugs have remained in place.

In many cases, those who take a position on what kind of policy should be implemented regarding drug trafficking often do so from a place of ignorance and arbitrary associations. The global development of drug trafficking and the particular differences across various countries should compel us to propose policies that are specific yet interconnected.

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

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

Story about a kid (or not) from Greater Rosario.

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.