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.

A seizure may last only a few hours. The routes that brought the cocaine there, decades. Some of the structures that made its journey possible, centuries. A journey into the depths of drug trafficking through the lens of Fernand Braudel.

Architecture and urban planning can address territorial violence through care, land regulation and community life. Feminist urbanism proposes safer, more equitable and livable cities built around everyday life and collective needs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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