Blood Brotherhoods (142 page)

Buscetta theorem,
529–530
,
536
,
551
,
566
,
570
,
571

Bush, George W.,
645

Business, mafias and,
347
,
360
,
424
,
547–549

concrete,
361–372

waste-management,
626
,
627–632

See also
Construction industry

Caccia, Bruno,
370

Cacciatori
,
659

Cacciola, Maria Concetta,
649–650

Calabria,
117–119

Africo,
120
,
127–141
,
144
,
145–146
,
240

AMGOT in,
274–276

anti-mafia campaigns in,
231–234
,
237–241
,
266–269

co-management in,
124

earthquake and reconstruction of,
200

economic crisis in,
138–139

fragmentation of,
140

mafia of (
see
’Ndrangheta [Calabrian mafia]
;
Piccioterria [Lads with Attitude])

Marzano Operation,
335
,
336–345

New Organised Camorra (
see
Nuova Camorra Organizzata [NCO]
)

Plain of Gioia Tauro,
121–126

post-war neglect of,
308–309

Reggio Calabria (city),
118
,
119
,
120
,
121
,
200
,
239
,
354
,
395
,
401
,
405–407
,
424

Reggio Calabria (province),
xxxiii
,
xliii
,
119
,
153
,
334–335
,
401–402
,
427
,
430
,
549–550

stereotypes of,
113–114
,
137–138
,
151–152

Calderone, Antonino,
409
,
411
,
414
,
415
,
563

Calderone, Pippo,
392
,
414
,
465

Calì cartel,
638

Callea, Bruno,
133
,
140

Callea, Domenico,
128–131
,
132
,
135
,
137

Callea, Giuseppe,
140

Calò, Pippo,
553–554
,
558
,
566

Calvi, Roberto,
449

Cambridge History of China
,
435

Il Cammorista
(film),
479–480

The Camorra
(Monnier),
27

Camorra (Neapolitan/Campanian mafia),
xl
,
xlv
,
6
,
13
,
125

Allied Liberation and,
281

anti-mafia campaigns against,
584–586

Christian Democrats and,
585

code book,
9

collapse of original,
310–312

co-management and,
16–17

contemporary,
617–626

Cosa Nostra and,
388–392
,
477–478

courts,
10–11

crackdown on,
35–46

Cuocolo trial,
187–188
,
189–196
,
214–220

decision-making power and role of,
39

dramas about,
310–311

dress code,
12–13

drug trafficking and,
620
,
623

Duisberg massacre,
xxxiii
,
xxxiv–xxxv
,
136
,
644–645

emigrating to America,
197–200

enforced residence,
45–46

exploitation of political weakness,
548–549

extortion and,
17–18

fascism’s anti-mafia campaign and,
231–234

folklore about,
101–102

foundation myth of,
xxv–xxvi

fragmentation of,
545–546

Garibaldean rule and,
32–34

Gomorrah
,
633–636
,
644

grey zone,
657–659

hackney-cab-drivers’ strike and,
111–112

‘high,’
184–188

hunt for fugitive,
615

initiation rituals,
100
,
215
,
623

kidnappings and,
416

kinship and,
624

legacy of Cuocolo trial for,
214–220

link between urban and rural,
354

loan sharking and,
195–196
,
203

‘low,’
185

in Mazzoni,
229–233

meaning of term,
xxx

membership fee,
128
,
236

modernisation of Naples and,
217–218

myth of good
camorrista
,
228

NCO (
see
Nuova Camorra Organizzata [NCO]
)

’ndrangheta and,
400

NF (
see
Nuova Famiglia [NF]
)

organisation of,
xl–xli
,
38–39
,
623–624

origin of,
3–6
,
7–14
,
39–40

penitents,
585

picciotteria and,
125–126

plays about,
99–101

police and,
25–31

political activity by,
19
,
187

popular image of,
99–102

post-earthquake reconstruction and,
200
,
481–482
,
483–484
,
486–487

post–World War I,
235–238

prisons and,
3–6
,
7–14
,
112–114

public attention to,
643–644

publicity and,
474
,
476

in Puglia,
493

re-emergence of,
312–313

in straw-yellow gloves,
194–195

tattoos,
95–97
,
98
,
113

transsexual (
femminielli
),
625

wars,
462
,
471–478

waste-management industry and,
626
,
627–632

women and,
76–77
,
624–625

See also
Mafia organisations

Campania

AMGOT in,
276–281

camorra of (
see
Camorra [Neapolitan/Campanian mafia]
;
Nuova Camorra Organizzata [NCO]
;
Nuova Famiglia [NF]
)

conflict with Nuova Famiglia,
542–545

Cosa Nostra in,
387
,
388–389
,
545

earthquake,
480
,
481–482

garbage crisis,
627–629

Genovese in,
255–256

geography of the underworld in,
617–626