CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.