la familia wikipedia Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/la-familia-wikipedia Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:40:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 LA FAMIGLIA http://toursmaps.com/la-famiglia.html http://toursmaps.com/la-famiglia.html#respond Fri, 20 Jan 2017 01:24:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=227217 LA FAMIGLIA Powerful because people owed them favors, strong because they supported one another, and feared because they did not hesitate to kill offenders, the Sicilian Mafia founded a brutal tradition that has dominated life since the late 19th century. The Mafia system has its roots in the latifondi (agricultural estates) of rural Sicily, where land managers and salaried militiamen protected their turf and people. Today, Sicilians avoid the topic, referring to the Mafia as Cosa Nostra (Our Thing). At a grass-roots level, the Mafia is said to have long controlled public works infrastructure, and farmers for years have lived

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