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The Shocking Truth About Corruption And Power!
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Jun 26, 2025
In this explosive exposé, we reveal how organized crime syndicates are literally BUYING entire democratic systems around the world. From Italy's 'Ndrangheta to Brazil's prison gangs, discover the terrifying reality of how the modern mafia has evolved from violence to something far more dangerous - systemic corruption. What you'll discover in this video: ✅ How criminal organizations launder BILLIONS through legitimate businesses ✅ The shocking connection between EU funding and mafia expansion ✅ Why voting in some regions is completely controlled by criminal groups ✅ The brave few fighting back against impossible odds ✅ Why YOUR country might be next on the auction block This isn't conspiracy - this is documented fact. Europol has called this "one of the biggest threats facing society today." The puppet masters behind the scenes aren't just breaking laws; they're REWRITING them. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more investigations that the mainstream media won't touch! 👇 Comment below: Do you think your local government has been compromised? The Shocking Truth About Corruption And Power! #OrganizedCrime #Corruption #Democracy #Investigation #MafiaExposed #GlobalThreat #PoliticalCorruption SOURCES: This video is based on extensive research from Europol reports, academic studies, and investigative journalism. All sources are listed on our website.
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sold to the gentleman in the back with
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the shall we say silent partners next up
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for bid lot 17b the public works
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contract for waste management do I hear
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1 million 2 million sold what if the
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levers of your government the contracts
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the politicians the very laws shaping
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your life were being auctioned off not
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in a public square but in shadowy
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backrooms that's not a hypothetical it's
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happening right now and the highest
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bidders aren't corporations or foreign
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states they're the world's most powerful
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criminal organizations
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this is the story of how the mafia in
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all its global forms is staging a
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hostile takeover of democracy itself
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the word mafia probably conjures images
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of oldw world Italy of families with
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names like Corleó running things in
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tight-knit Sicilian communities but that
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image is dangerously out ofd today's
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mafias are sprawling transnational
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corporations of crime they're the
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Italian and drangata with a footprint in
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more than 40 countries and an annual
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revenue so massive it dwarfs the GDP of
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some nations they are the Promero
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Commando Decapal or PCC a Brazilian
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prison gang that's ballooned into a
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global mafia pulling political strings
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and burrowing deep into the legal
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economy they are the militias in Rio de
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Janeiro often started by ex cops who
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control entire territories
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these groups have evolved their weapon
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of choice is no longer the car bomb but
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the bribe their greatest asset isn't
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fear it's complicity they've figured out
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it's cheaper and way more effective to
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buy a politician than to intimidate one
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easier to own the system than to fight
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it the product they're selling is crime
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itself and the price is the integrity of
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our institutions they aren't just
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breaking the law they're rewriting it
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they aren't just corrupting officials
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they're installing their own this isn't
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just crime it's a silent creeping coup
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spreading across the globe and eating
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away at the very foundations of the rule
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of law we're going to follow the money
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trace the networks of violence and
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corruption and show you exactly how a
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country gets put up for sale section one
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the old world playbook perfected to get
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your head around this global takeover
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you have to start in Italy the
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birthplace of the mafia state this is
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where groups like the Sicilian
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Kosanostra the Neapolitan Kamora and the
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monstrously powerful Calabrian Andranga
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wrote the playbook on political
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infiltration
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for decades they ran on a simple brutal
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transaction votes for favors they could
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deliver entire city blocks of votes to a
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politician and in return they'd get
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protection and a slice of the public pie
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but the shocking violence of the past
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like the assassinations of judges
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Giovani Falconee and Paulo Borcelino in
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1992
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horrified the country and frankly became
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bad for business the mafia adapted they
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went quiet they swapped overt terror for
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a more sinister strategy economic and
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political infiltration
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the goal was no longer just to influence
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power but to become power take the
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Dangata it started in Calabria one of
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Italy's poorest regions and is now seen
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as the most powerful criminal
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organization in the world how by
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mastering the art of rigging public
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contracts they slide into sectors like
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construction waste management and even
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green energy huge injections of public
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money like European Union funds become
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irresistible targets
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a recent study even showed that when EU
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public spending surges in a region the
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predicted risk of mafia infiltration
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goes up with it and stays up they pull
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this off by systematically corrupting
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local governments when a town council is
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compromised the bidding process for
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public works is a sham companies
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secretly owned by the mafia win the
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contracts the work is often shoddy or
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never gets done at all but the
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government pays in full this creates a
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stream of legitimate money that washes
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illicit profits clean this is more than
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just theft it's a total perversion of
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public service money that was meant for
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new roads hospitals or schools
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gets funneled directly into a criminal
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empire the effect on democracy is
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corrosive one study found that after the
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Italian national government dissolved a
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local council because of mafia
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infiltration the average education level
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of the newly elected politicians
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actually went up in other words the
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mafia's presence drives away qualified
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honest people leaving a vacuum for the
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corrupt or the complicit to fill the
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parallel state ilmerma becomes the real
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state with the power to handpick
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officials and carve up contracts this is
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the perfected model a system where the
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line between crime and state is so
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blurry it basically disappears section
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two the new world order naropolitics and
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militia power while Italy may have
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written the original playbook new
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chapters are being written with
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terrifying speed in Latin America in
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Brazil the line between organized crime
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and politics isn't just blurry in some
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places it's being erased completely the
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players are different powerful prison
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gangs like the PCC and paramilitary
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militias but the goal is identical
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capture the state from the bottom up the
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Promero Commando de Capital the PCC
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started in the prisons of Sao Paulo in
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the '90s supposedly as a voice for
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prisoners rights after a brutal prison
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massacre today it's a billion-dollar
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criminal enterprise with tens of
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thousands of members controlling drug
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routes not just in Brazil but across
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South America and into Europe and Africa
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through partnerships with groups like
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the Endranga
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the PCC and political strategy is
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surgical a lead prosecutor explained
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that the gang doesn't really care about
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electing a single congressman it's far
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more valuable to them to control city
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councils where the decisions are made
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about things like garbage collection
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public transport and land use lucrative
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sectors just waiting to be exploited for
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extortion and money laundering a recent
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investigation in Brazil uncovered a
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stunning example the city of Sao Paulo
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had paid over $140 million to bus
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companies that were under police
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investigation for their deep links to
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the PCC that is the hostile takeover in
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action it's not about a single bribe
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it's about seizing control of essential
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public services and turning them into
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cash machines for a criminal empire over
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in Rio de Janeiro a different model of
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criminal rule has taken over the
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militias often made up of former or even
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active police officers firefighters and
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soldiers these groups market themselves
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as protection from drug gangs in reality
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they're just another predator they run
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extortion rackets control the
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distribution of cooking gas and internet
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and dominate local real estate their
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political strategy is audacious they run
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their own family members as candidates
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to keep their grip on power and give
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their illegal businesses a shield of
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legitimacy for people living in these
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areas democracy is a joke during
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elections they're often told exactly who
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to vote for candidates who aren't
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approved by the local militia are banned
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from even campaigning there this isn't
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just a distortion of the democratic
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process it's the complete suspension of
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it one journalist summed up the
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situation bleakly today Brazil is closer
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to becoming a narco state than being
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able to clean up corruption it's a
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terrifying glimpse of what happens when
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the state loses control and criminal
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groups step in to fill the void not as
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rebels but as the new unelected
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government section three the global
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playbook how the sale is made so how
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does a local gang grow into a global
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powerhouse that can buy a piece of a
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country the mechanics are shockingly
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similar across the globe a standardized
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playbook for turning dirty money into
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political power it's a three-step
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process wash the money corrupt the
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system and capture the economy first the
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money organized crime generates
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mountains of cash from drug trafficking
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extortion and all its other rackets this
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cash is dirty and it's dangerous to hold
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it needs to be washed a process called
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money laundering that's all about making
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illegal profits look legit the first
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step is getting the cash into the
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financial system often through front
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companies think restaurants or retail
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stores where big cash flows are normal
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the next step is layering where the
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money gets moved through a dizzying maze
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of transactions to hide where it came
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from here the global financial system
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becomes an unwitting accomplice shell
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companies are set up in offshore havens
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with strict bank secrecy fake invoices
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are created for goods and services that
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don't exist money bounces between dozens
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of accounts in different countries
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making it almost impossible to trace
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investigators call these systems
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laundromats
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allpurpose financial machines designed
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for total anonymity once the money is
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clean it's integrated back into the
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legal economy and this is where the real
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takeover starts phase two is systemic
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corruption we're talking about more than
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just bribing a cop to look the other way
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this is a strategic investment criminal
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groups use their laundered billions to
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bankroll political campaigns and put
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their people in office in return these
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politicians provide protection pass
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friendly laws and award juicy government
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contracts to companies controlled by
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their criminal backers
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it becomes a symbiotic relationship the
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politician needs the mafia's cash to get
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elected and the mafia needs the
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politicians power to expand this brings
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us to the final stage economic capture
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with political protection locked down
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criminal organizations move aggressively
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into the legitimate economy a recent
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Europole report revealed that a shocking
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86% of the most threatening criminal
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networks in Europe use legal business
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structures to hide their crimes they buy
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up construction companies logistics
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firms real estate and hotels these
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businesses serve two purposes they're
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another way to launder money and they
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choke out legitimate competition through
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intimidation and the unfair advantages
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they get from their corrupt political
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friends even agricultural subsidies have
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become a prime target in Italy
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investigators found that mafia clans
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were stealing millions of euros from the
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EU's farm subsidy fund by strongarming
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legitimate farmers and creating fake
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land claims the country's most wanted
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mafia boss at the time had family
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members on the subsidy payroll for three
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decades this is the endgame it's a cycle
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that feeds itself drug money gets
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laundered through a construction company
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which then wins a government contract
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thanks to a crooked politician whose
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campaign was funded with that same drug
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money the profits are reinvested the
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network grows and the criminal
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enterprise gets so tangled up in the
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political and economic fabric of a
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country that it's impossible to pull out
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without tearing the whole system down
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they don't need to break down the door
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anymore they have a key section four the
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turning point fighting back faced with
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this tidal wave of systemic corruption
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it's easy to feel hopeless when the
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state itself is compromised who's left
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to fight back the answer is a courageous
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few the story of the war against the
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mafia is also a story of incredible
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bravery of journalists prosecutors and
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everyday citizens who refuse to accept
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that their country is for sale in Italy
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the fight has been long and bloody men
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like Judge Giovani Falconei knew that to
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beat the mafia you had to follow the
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money his meticulous investigations in
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the 1980s led to the landmark Maxi trial
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which saw hundreds of mafiosi convicted
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he paid for that success with his life
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murdered in a bombing in 1992
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but his work laid the foundation for
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anti-mafia laws that are now a model for
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the rest of Europe these laws allow the
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state to seize criminal assets striking
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at the very heart of the mafia's power
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its wealth today that fight is carried
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on by people like Jeppi Antoshi a former
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national park director in Sicily who now
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serves in the European Parliament when
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Antosi discovered the massive fraud the
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mafia was running on EU farm subsidies
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he didn't just stay quiet he pushed for
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a new law in Italy to tighten background
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checks a protocol that has since helped
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convict hundreds of mobsters his
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activism nearly got him killed in an
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ambush on a dark road he survived but
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now lives under constant police
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protection if I give up this fight
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because I'm afraid he says it means
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they've won and I can't let that happen
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the fight is also going global and
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getting smarter projects like I can or
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interpol cooperation against indranceta
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bring police forces from dozens of
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countries together to share intelligence
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on the clans scattered across the world
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this teamwork has led to the arrests of
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high-profile fugitives who thought they
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were untouchable hiding out for years in
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other countries and now they're even
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using machine learning to predict which
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Italian towns are at high risk of mafia
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infiltration giving authorities a chance
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to step in before it's too late in
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Brazil investigative journalists are
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risking their lives to expose the unholy
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alliance between crime and politics a
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series of reports by the newspaper
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Estadaw mapped in painstaking detail how
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the PCC and militias were infiltrating
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local elections leading to public outcry
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and official investigations
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in communities where criminals tell you
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who to vote for the simple act of
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reporting the truth becomes an act of
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democratic defiance
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these efforts are not without immense
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risk and victories are often small and
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hard won the criminal networks are
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resilient they adapt for every boss
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arrested another rises for every
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loophole closed another is found but
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these turning points matter they prove
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that the system even when it's been
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beaten down and compromised can still
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fight back they show that the actions of
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individuals can expose the rot and rally
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people against it the fight against the
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global mafia is a war of attrition waged
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by those who believe that their country
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their democracy and their future are not
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negotiable the fight against organized
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crime can feel distant like a problem
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for other countries for law enforcement
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with billiondollar budgets but the front
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line in this war is much closer than you
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think it runs through your bank the
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products you buy the buildings going up
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in your town and the politicians you
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elect the laundered money of a drug
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cartel could be invested in the real
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estate development down your street the
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corruption they fuel overseas can
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destabilize entire regions creating
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consequences that ripple right back to
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your doorstep so what can we do it
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starts with paying attention
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understanding how these networks operate
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is the key to seeing their influence
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support and demand more from
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investigative journalism
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organizations that drag these dark
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connections into the light are a vital
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part of our democratic immune system pay
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attention to local politics ask
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questions about public contracts demand
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transparency in how campaigns are funded
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when democracy is for sale informed and
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engaged citizens are its last and best
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line of defense
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we've traveled from the fields of
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Calabria to the FLLAS of Rio following a
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trail of money and power that connects a
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street level drug dealer to a corrupt
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government minister we've seen how
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organized crime has morphed from a
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national threat into a global parasite
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latching onto the arteries of the world
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economy and the institutions of our
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democracies
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this isn't a problem with an easy fix
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these criminal networks are deeply
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entrenched ruthless and they adapt they
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thrive in the shadows exploiting the
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cracks in globalization and the weak
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spots in our own systems their goal
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isn't chaos it's control a world where
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laws are written by criminals for
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criminals where public funds serve
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private greed and where justice is just
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another commodity to be bought and sold
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according to a Europole report organized
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crime is one of the biggest threats we
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face today a force that poisons society
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with corruption and violence
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the choice is stark we can let the for
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sale sign on our democratic institutions
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become a permanent fixture or we can
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recognize this for what it is a battle
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for the rule of law itself the fight is
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daunting but it's not lost it's being
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fought in every courtroom where a
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prosecutor refuses to be intimidated in
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every newsroom that publishes a
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difficult truth and in every community
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that refuses to be silenced the ultimate
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question isn't whether the mafia is
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buying it's whether we're willing to
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keep selling
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