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  • Facts & Stories

    The Bosses of Finance, The Huge Power that Threatens Us

    Judith Harris(April 03, 2019)
    The latest book by sociologist Pino Arlacchi, Italy's famed Mafia analyst, takes a broader look at crime than do any of his previous works. Born in Calabria in 1951, the former MP and senator was a founder of Italy's Anti-Mafia Investigative Commission and then Undersecretary general of the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention.
  • Facts & Stories

    Rome, Among World's Cities Safest From Violent Crime

    Judith Harris(January 30, 2019)
    News from a top Italian prosecutor that Rome is among Europe's safest cities has resounded beyond Italy. In the Eternal City the number of intentional homicides has fallen by half. But other problems persist, from corruption to cocaine.
  • Rita Borsellino
    Opinioni

    Rita Borsellino, parlava al cuore della gente

    Francesco Bertolino(August 16, 2018)
    Si è spenta Rita Borsellino dopo una lunga malattia in ospedale. Era la sorella del giudice Paolo, magistrato italiano, vittima di mafia. Aveva 73 anni. Dopo il brutale assassinio del fratello, per mano di Cosa Nostra, è stata un testimone molto attivo della lotta alla mafie e alle criminalità organizzate. Negli ultimi anni aveva creato e fondato il "Centro Studi Paolo Borsellino", che si propone come l'archivio di questi anni d'impegno, ma anche e soprattutto uno strumento per fare memoria.
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    Facts & Stories

    Salvini to Saviano: "Off with his bodyguards!"

    Judith Harris(June 23, 2018)
    For most of us, Roberto Saviano, 39, is one of Italy's great modern heroes. The author of the gangland investigative book and movie "Gomorrah" has lived under armed escort for 11 years, but has tangled with the new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, with literally grave risks to his life..
  • Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate, Judge Giovanni Falcone
    Life & People

    A Grant for Justice: Honoring Judge Giovanni Falcone

    Alex Catti(May 23, 2017)
    On May 23rd, 1992, the Mafia in Sicily tragically killed Judge Giovanni Falcone, who dedicated his career to fighting organized crime. Now, 25 years later, the Fulbright Commission Italy has joined with the Fondazione Falcone and the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) to create a grant for students in the field of Criminology.
  • Facts & Stories

    Italy, France, and the Satirical Dispute

    Federico Ghelli(September 09, 2016)
    French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, sparks outrage after publishing insulting cartoons portraying the recent earthquake that afflicted central Italy. Later, Italian cartoonists wreaked vengeance against France.
  • Art & Culture

    'Sono Cosa Nostra', a Documentary on Libera

    Natasha Lardera(December 11, 2015)
    Directed by Simone Aleandri and Produced by Clipper Media with Rai Cinema, the documentary Sono Cosa Nostra celebrates the 20years ofLibera,anetworkof over 1600 associations fighting against all types of Mafias. Libera wasfounded by Don Ciotti, a priest from Turin, in 1995 and it uses land and assets seized from the Mafia to set up local food cooperatives, anti­drug projects, and community centers. Libera was also fundamental in the passing oflaw 109 which allowsthe seizure of assets belonging the Mafia.
  • Op-Eds

    Rome on the Eve of a Jubilee

    Judith Harris(June 24, 2015)
    On the eve of the Extraordinary Jubilee called by Pope Francis to begin Dec. 8, the Eternal City administration is plagued by accusations of corruption and Mafia infiltration. Most of the scandals predate the election in 2013 of left-leaning Mayor Ignazio Marino, a medical doctor considered above reproach but now subject to intense pressures to resign. However, corrupt officials are not the only ones to blame for Rome’s problems.

  • Palermo Remembers Giovanni Falcone

    Gero Salamone(May 29, 2015)
    The “No to Mafia” movement passed through the Sicilian capital. Starting with the involvement of schools. Over 40 thousand students out on the streets, some coming from Europe and the United States. Also present was the NIAF (National Italian American Foundation), which, alongside the Fulbright commission and the Falcone Foundation, stipulated an agreement for six scholarships to be assigned to Sicilian students wishing to study in America and American students who would want to go study in Sicily. An ambitious project, involving three important institutions with the common goal of promoting research and scientific depth in the field of criminology, as was specified by the president of NIAF, John Viola.

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