Originally Posted by
Graycap
When you think about the Mafia as ae example of a "resolved" criminal insurgency you'd better specify that it has abandoned in 1993 the terrorist line of operation. But at huge cost for the legitimacy of the State.
After a string of terrorist actions a secret deal has been struck. The Italian State has partially abandoned the use of harsh detention (art. 41/bis) that the mafia so feared. Tha Mafia has reached his political objective with the use of force.
Today "Cosa Nostra" is not the most dangerous, insurgency wise, of the criminal organizations directly threathening the state control of territory and population.
The N'drangheta (in Calabria not in Sicily) is far more strong and rich.
One aspect to consider when we talk about this organizations is the relevance they attach to local control of the original territory even whenthe organization is spread around the world. Even when Mafia or N'Drangheta control billion of dollars in half of the world by the most technological means the leadership is always located very near to the original small town of origin and they doesn't accept any kind of interference in their homebases.
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