![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He had gone into hiding twenty-three years earlier, after being convicted of international drug trafficking and sentenced to twenty-eight years and nine months in prison. In June 2017 Giuseppe “the Goat” Giorgi, a boss of the ’Ndrangheta (the Calabrian mafia) and one of Italy’s most dangerous criminals, was arrested. Who doesn’t recall the opening scene of The Godfather, when Vito Corleone extends his hand to Bonasera, the Italian who has come to ask him a “favor,” and who reverently kisses the boss’s hand to ingratiate himself? But before all else, the mafia is language and symbols. People think the mafia is first and foremost violence, hit men, threats, extortion, and drug trafficking. Stills from news footage of ’Ndrangheta boss Giuseppe ‘The Goat’ Giorgi during his arrest, showing him greeting local men and having his hand kissed in a typical mafia gesture of respect, San Luca, Calabria, June 2017 ![]()
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