Twenty years ago, during the G8 in Genoa, I had stopped being a citizen and was just a hysterical father. My daughter was 16 years old and she had gone there, dressed in braids, Peruvian jumpers and chains, and the news that arrived on the first day
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Welcome to Lake Uru Uru, Cordillera de los Andes, Bolivia – one of the largest and most beautiful lakes in South America, deep blue, full of fish and home to thousands of flamingos – until just five years ago. Now, as you can see, it is an
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Republican Italy has a sad tradition of army officers with vibrant anti-democratic passions. In December 1970 there was even a coup led by submarine officer Junio Valerio Borghese[1]: hero of World War II[2], one of the founding fathers of MSI – the far-right
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On November 26, 2020, in “il Riformista”, journalist Aldo Torchiaro begins to publish a series of articles documenting how Casaleggio Srl – the company that controls the Five Star Movement – has continuously received large sums along several years from Philip Morris International[1]. Torchiaro also shows that
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Until a few years ago, criminals hid their illegal business and the resulting income in tax havens close to their homes, where clients, lawyers and bankers spoke the same language: Zurich, Amsterdam, Vaduz, Monte Carlo, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Lugano, Panama[1]. Then the Egmont Group[2] was born, and with
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It all started with a small local scandal, in a country, Zambia, which is one of the poorest and least known in the world and which has only experienced economic growth in the last twenty years thanks to the mining industry[1]. However, the country has remained what
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Aldo Anghessa is dead; the legendary Alpha-Alpha, aka Agent Lotti-Ghetti or Commander Manfredini, to mention just two among thousands of his successful façades. He died alone and lonely as he had always lived even when he was among other people, actor in a spectacular play of which
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The world is small and full of things you don’t expect. But they really do happen: when Donald Trump called a G7 meeting in May 2017, he wanted it to be in Sicily. Despite the objections of the Italian police and the embarrassment of the American government,
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This year marks a century since the Vatican bankers, led by the Pacelli family, whose most famous member Eugenio, who worked in Tripoli and Cairo, became Pope Pius XII. They laid the foundation for a common idea between an Egyptian and a Vatican bank and, as significant,
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There are people who play a fundamental role in the immense mechanism of the world economy, but whose existence remains unknown to the wider public. An exemplar is David Vincenzetti’s[1], whose life is comparable to a script written for a Hollywood spy thriller, even to the name
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