CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

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 danger of laughing at men who need to be feared: the story of a rebellion built on ridicule.

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.

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.

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.

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.