CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There are women who have not only been victims of the mafias but have also carried out their work against organized crime, fully aware that continuing to confront mafia power would put them in danger — even at risk of death. One of these women — whose name is often known, but whose story rarely is — is Francesca Morvillo. Here is part of her story.

Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato es un militante socialista italiano que enfrentó a la mafia en la localidad de Cinisi, en la isla de Sicilia. Todavía hoy es un referente de la lucha y de la cultura contra la mafia. Con herramientas como el arte, la musica y la poesia desarrollo parte de la cultura antimafia. Aquí parte de su historia.

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.

Paolo Borsellino was an Italian magistrate who, together with his friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone, led numerous prosecutions against the Sicilian mafia.