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Not just his, but a lot of his connections' crimes as well, if I remember correctly. Again, a degree of legal nihilism that comes with the clientelistic territory. Of course, Italians are not alone in having these kinds of political-economical arrangements. Just look at Spain, Greece and Portugal, or most of Latin America for that matter.
Italy's strength is maybe the fact that whatever its political shortcomings post WW2, it hasn't, like Spain, Greece, Portugal, Turkey and most other of the Mediterranean states, had a coup, a junta, a dictator, or civil wars of any kind. Terror and political violence aplenty at times, but nonetheless relatively stable. After all we're talking about the 7th largest economy in the world, so this is a good thing, in some way.
But of course that brings us right back to the underground and informal economies. The criminal economy of Italy filters at least 10% of total turnover. Almost everyone in Italy are affected by this in some way or other, as well as countless people that depend on Italian mafias to buy, sell and supply guns, drugs, people and contraband all over the place. So it's of course a problem that transcends Italy and Italians. |
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