“Undeservedly, you will atone for the sins of your fathers”- Horace The Godfather In the late 1970s, unwanted infamy graced the town of Corleone, Sicily. Particularly, on account of the movie The Godfather using its name. The movie’s main characters belonged to a fictitious mafia family named after the town…....
Toto Riina
Mafia Rehabilitation
“Music is the key to unlock a prison door.”- Anonymous Recently, I read an article regarding the musician Sting and a guitar made for him by Italian prisoners. Occasionally, I’ll read something that piques my interest, and after some research, a blog post is created. In this instance, the fact…...
Two of a kind-mafia/terrorist
“Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.”-Alan Keyes, former US assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs While researching, I’ve discovered some intriguing parallels between the mafia and…...
The Picture
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”- Ansel Adams What makes a photograph stand out from the rest? For me, it involves catching an unexpected person or moment and capturing it. I’m not a photographer by any means, but I do own a camera and…...
Berlusconi and the mafia
Last week, during a hearing before the Appeal Court of Assizes, pentito (collaborator of justice), Girolamo Bruzzese offered intriguing insight into political connections to the’ndrangheta. Equally important, he detailed a gathering of mafia leaders, in or about 1978-1979. Present at the meeting were the politician, Bettino Craxi, and the previous…...
Cosa Nostra’s Soldati : Children
Soldati (Soldiers) The International Labor Organization Convention182 of 1999 identifies “the use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the production and trafficking of drugs as defined in the relevant international treaties” as one of the worst forms of child labor. Catania, Sicily Catania, a…...