The Italian mafia’s tentacles in Colombia: Cheaper cocaine and ties with the Gulf Clan
The recent capture of several leaders of the Camorra and the ‘Ndragheta highlights the extensive operations of European crime groups in the South American country
Major raid reveals the secrets of the new Cosa Nostra: Video chats between bosses and ‘The Godfather’ as a school of life
The Carabinieri arrested 183 mafiosi from the most powerful clans in Palermo in a raid the likes of which has not been seen since the era of Judge Falcone in the 1980s
How the Chinese criminal network Tian Xia She operated: Young girls prostituted as slaves and minors selling drugs
The organization, accused of trafficking Asian women, also extorted business owners into giving them 20% of their profits in exchange for security, according to the police investigation
Rita Segato: ‘The present is sinister. We are all threatened’
The Argentine anthropologist, who has dedicated 30 years to the study of violence, weaves the connections between the sexual crimes of Ciudad Juárez and the massacres in Gaza, in what she calls the end of the era of respect for human rights
France declares war on drug trafficking with a special plan to reduce crime
In Marseille, the epicenter of drug trafficking gangs, the Ministers of Justice and Interior presented a project to prevent the ‘Mexicanization’ of the country, which includes the appointment of a liaison magistrate in Bogotá
Psychoanalysis and free sex: The Sullivanians, a commune that mutated into a cult on New York’s Upper West Side
A book and a documentary reconstruct the history of an organization set up by a couple of therapists in the late 1950s. The painter Jackson Pollock and the novelist Richard Price were linked to the group, which dissolved in 1991 and once had 400 members
Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking
On the edges of society, adolescents navigate the mafias that recruit them and the efforts of police officers, social workers and the few politicians who try to keep them on the side of the law. However, as drug trafficking extends its presence throughout the Netherlands, violence and intimidation are threatening the country’s institutions. This is a portrait of Dutch society that has little to do with the postcards that depict bicycles and tulips
Kermit the Frog, ‘Eric’ and other stories from the mean streets of 1980s New York
A documentary on Jim Henson by Ron Howard and the Netflix miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch coincide in their portrait of an era as decadent as it was creative
First European farmers practiced ritual killing used today by the mafia
The first examples of ‘incaprettamento’ appear in cave paintings in southern Italy dated to the European Mesolithic period
Honors for an Italian mafioso’s thesis in which he confesses to three unknown murders: ‘What follows is my criminal history’
The justice system is investigating the sociology paper that Catello Romano wrote in prison on the ‘allure of crime’
The Italian mafia regroups after the death of capo Messina Denaro
The Cosa Nostra eschews headline-grabbing murders in favor of drug trafficking and corruption
Raid targets Madrid-based Camorra clan
More than 30 arrests made so far in joint operation between Spanish and Italian authorities