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The Ndrangheta today brings to a global scale what Cosa Nostra has experimented with...
On the anniversary of the Capaci massacre, the day Giovanni Falcone was killed, Cosa Nostra raised its conflict with the state to a decisive level. Today it is good to reflect on how much the web of power in the mafia world has changed since then. And, indeed, globalization has also changed the hierarchy and strategies in the international criminal system.
Capaci, along with Via D'Amelio, shocked public opinion and Italian memory. At the time, along with the subsequent Cosa Nostra bombing season of 1993, it appeared to be a manifestation of the Sicilian Mafia's invulnerability. In reality, that two-year period marked the final self-destruction of Cosa Nostra's power. At the level of the mafia's geostrategic projection, another massacre is significantly more significant, that of Duisburg in 2007, a settlement of accounts with the 'Ndrangheta, which nevertheless revealed, in the eyes of the world, the consequences of the mafia, which more than all of them also understood globalization.
An oft-cited comparison among sector experts is that " Cosa Nostra is to other international criminal organizations what Michelangelo is to the Mannerists ". "The ' Ndrangheta today brings to a global scale what Cosa Nostra has experimented with, through strategies such as the Pizza Connection and the triangle between Palermo and Marseille, in the crucial sector of drug trafficking, the main source of capital for any criminal organization ," recalls Professor Giuseppe Gagliano .
The 'Ndrangheta inherited much from Cosa Nostra and the Calabrians were able to define the strategy that led to the global projection of the state mafia 106 and the formation of a strategic alliance, with the new Colombian cartels, increasingly interested in building financial alliances transnational. " The new Colombian cartels are even eager to create joint ventures with the 'Ndrangheta because they know that such cooperation will be mutually beneficial ," notes Eurispes. For its part, the Ndrangheta strengthens its monopoly position in large-scale cocaine trafficking in Europe. On the other hand, the Colombians get from the new partners the opportunity to penetrate the European market while minimizing the risks.
Marco Giaconi, political scientist and geopolitical analyst who passed away in 2020, wrote the seminal essay: "International Criminal Organizations in the Year 2000. Geostrategic and Economic Aspects", in which he highlighted a further potential of globalization to enable a division of mafia work on a global scale.
“ Criminal groups, old and new, have benefited (including diversifying and specializing in crime) because of the capital they have amassed through the ease of money laundering in poorly regulated global financial and real estate markets; but also for the opportunities offered by innovative information and communication technologies (in particular, mobile phones and the Internet) for the encryption of messages, the concealment of traffic and access to mass and global markets, as well as for the performance of telematics fraud ", he wrote in 2014 .
From this perspective, the "further enabling factors" of transnational crime were global modes of transport by sea, land and air, especially taking advantage of containers and the creation of countless free and legal zones, to encourage investment, reducing the burden fiscal and bureaucratic.
The "Ndrangheta", thanks to a network structure that makes each cell a semi-autonomous "metastasis" from the center, but responding to the same criterion of belonging to identity, values and territorial origin, has been able to coordinate the "division of labor" . Creating not so much a chain of interests as a value chain, capable of enabling a turnover of 150 billion dollars per year and the spread of branches on five continents.
The Ndrangheta is the most globalized mafia because it has gone from coordinating trafficking to creating a network architecture of criminal systems. The relationships go from the "Ndrangheta" ranging from the Colombian cartels, the creators of the new conquest of cocaine in Europe, North America and the rest of the world, to the "black financial" organizations active in tax havens, to achieve the use of cryptocurrencies and relations with jihadist and militant groups in Africa for waste trafficking.
From the race to control the territory, typical of Cosa Nostra, to the focus on the government of the flows, which brought the enrichment of the 'Ndrangheta: this is the synthesis of the thirty-year history of the mafia. Adapt to globalization. And, perhaps, among its most threatening components. Today even more than yesterday, also and above all because now we shoot less and work, even in crime, with the logic of trade and border technology. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from Inside Over"
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