“Esprimo il mio più sincero apprezzamento e compiacimento per la vasta operazione antimafia condotta all’alba nei quartieri di Sperone e Brancaccio, che ha portato al fermo di numerosi soggetti accusa ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In his heyday as boss of one of Sicily's most powerful Mafia clans, Giovanni Di Giacomo could order the elimination of ...

Giorgio Scimeca was only 19 years old when the Sicilian mafia gunned down his cousin. More than 25 years later, Scimeca says he will always remember the smell of blood. “He was running for mayor of ...

A Pax Mafiosa has settled over Sicily. Sicilians are defying the Mafia in a movement fueled by the generation that came of age in the 1980s, when waves of bloody public assassinations of prosecutors, ...

This story first appeared on Global Post. PALERMO, Italy -- In pop culture, the mafia may enjoy an image romanticized by the Sopranos, the Godfather and tabloid coverage of dapper dons. Dealing with ...

LONDON, July 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Sicily has lured hordes of visitors in its 2,500-year history. Today, it is enticing ethical tourists who do not ...

«Tra i tanti che, purtroppo, pagano le estorsioni, c'è invece chi, supportato da Addiopizzo, ha trovato la forza e il coraggio di opporsi a minacce e condizionamenti di Cosa nostra. Sono storie di res ...

In Italy, swarms of tourists are a common sight. But in Sicily, tourists donning the eye-catching Addiopizzo (goodbye to extortion) t-shirts of Addiopizzo Travel play a special role. They show their ...

Not long ago, a prosecutor in Palermo heard something strange on a wiretap. A mobster was telling a henchman not to punish a store for failing to pay its pizzo, or protection money. Palermo, the ...