Bigger than the Mafia

"As with the Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta's tentacles have spread thanks to emigration from Italy. In the period running up to 1925, dirt-poor Calabria lost more of its population than Sicily and more indeed than all but two of Italy's 20 regions. There was another massive outflow of Calabrians after the second world war, with the result that there are large communities of Calabrian descent - and remote outposts of the 'Ndrangheta - in Latin America, Canada and Australia." (John Hooper, The Guardian)

John Hooper writes about a new, globalised brand of Italian organised crime, courtesy of the London's Guardian.

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