There is no word mafia in party programs

There is little talk of mafia (or, better said, mafias) in this electoral campaign that risks being remembered for the paucity of content, reduced to simple cards to be spread on social media. sportsgaming.win has analyzed the programs of the main political forces on the issue. The judgment is merciless. Of Cosa Nostra Siciliana, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita, Stidda, Nigerian, Chinese, Albanian, agromafies and eco-mafias - try to keep count - it is hard to say something that goes beyond banality. Sometimes the topic is skipped, as if it didn't exist.

The presence of clans is everywhere. And they are linked to politics, entrepreneurship, institutions, deviant Freemasonry. "Let's specify the adjective 'deviated' - the Catanzaro prosecutor Nicola Gratteri often jokes - so no one can denounce us". The southern economy is strangled by this intricate tangle, in which each page of a judicial investigation can bring well-known, lesser-known and well-known names to the stand. There is a lack of industries, which in order to settle must make agreements with club leaders, hire staff reported by bosses, pay bribes of hundreds of thousands of euros. There is a lack of infrastructures and what is there, they are useless. Like the port of Gioia Tauro, which should have brought work and development to the homonymous plain and instead has always been crushed by the 'ndrine. An aerial view from the municipality of Nicotera shows tens of square kilometers without logistic infrastructures, of those processing and transformation companies that one might reasonably expect. Only a few fruit import-export companies, one of the channels used to ship cocaine from South America to Italy, from where the 'Ndrangheta supplies all of Europe because it is able to speak on an equal footing with Colombian cartels. Containers are used to build underground bunkers where bosses find refuge.