For those who don’t know: the film City of God is based on this, and it’s a great movie. One of my all-time favorites. The directing, acting photography and storytelling are all very well done. Worth anyone’s time.

Yup, they want to be documented. Tale as old as time.

They pushed them out of Italy, which forced mafia to adapt in the US, eventually becoming richer and stronger. A much more powerful transnational mafia returned back to Italy.

That’s just the state mafia replacing the other.

Why does that anger you? Democracy is fundamentally unable to solve such issues.

One Mafia pushed the other out. No improvement for normal people.

With Putin's Russia transition to authoritarian and recently becoming fully totalitarian, the Russian Mafia of 90s (with the 90s being the most democratic time in Russian history), is pretty much no more. FSB and police have replaced them in the protection and extortion domain. Thus nowdays an arrested colonel of FSB or police may easily have a couple cubic meters of money (euro and dollars) at home, to the envy of many mafioso around the world. Or Chechnja - instead of many smaller (and poorer and less organized) warlords of 90s, now there is only one with personal army of 40000 and exploiting the whole region in the style of the most cruel mafia.

They can, they just don’t do it. This is the case in every western „liberal democracy“.

Saviano is exactly one of the "antimafia professionals" that Sciascia claimed about.

I assume they just pretend to be the Googlebot so the site just gives the text.

I just assumed they copied it into their own db

Given to how many people its existence must be incredibly infuriating, it's so odd that it's not being chased down with more haste than pirate bay was. I mean I'm glad it's not, but kinda surprised.