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The Southern Question (il Mezzogiorno) and Organised Crime
1991
Average GDP in EU: 100
Northern/Central Italy: 122
Southern Italy: 68,9
UK: 106.3
[source C. Levy, Italian Regionalism, Oxford, 1996)
Underdevelopment, poverty, exploitation (75%pre-war dues on rented land)
1944: Fausto Gullo (PCI), Minister of Agriculture
1946: Antonio Segni (DC)
April 1947 Regional Elections: Blocco Popolare 30%
1 May 1947: Portella della Ginestra (Sicily): 11 dead, 33 wounded (Salvatore Giuliano)
29 Oct 1949: Melissa (Calabria): 3 dead, 15 wounded
Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, 1950
from “Cattedrali nel deserto” to local resources: olive oil, wine, tourism
Misuse of government funds: example (2004 data)
Lombardy
598,500 hectars of forest
400 guardie forestali (forest rangers)
Calabria
576,700 “
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11,000 “
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Guttuso, Occupazione delle terre incolte (1950)
THE MAFIA
1812 abolition of Feudalism > latifondi > gabellotti
Prefetto Mori
Il sacco di Palermo, 1950s/60s > Vito Ciancinimo > Salvo Lima
Corleonesi 1970s-1980s (Leggio, Riina, Brusca)
Sciascia, Il giorno della civetta (1962)
Peppino Impastato (May 1978)
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I cento passi (Giordana, 2000)
“Eminent corpses”: Piersanti Mattarella (DC, Jan 1980)
Pio La Torre (PCI, April 1982)
Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (Sep 1982)
Tommaso Buscetta, 1984
Giovanni Falcone >> Maxiprocesso 1986 >> Min. Justice 1991
Falcone (May 1992) Paolo Borsellino (July 1992)
Salvo Lima (Sep 1992)
Jan 1993 Riina arrested > bombs campaign May-Oct 1993
May 1996 Brusca arrested
Giuseppe Di Matteo: Dic 1993-Gen 1996 > Tu ridi (Taviani, 1998)
Leoluca Orlando,
Mayor of Palermo, 1985, 1993, 1997-2000
May 2001 General Elections
11 April 2006 Bernardo Provenzano arrested
5 Novembre 2007: Salvatore Lo Piccolo arrested
Neapolitan Camorra: Gomorra (Saviano 2007), (Garrone, 2008)