Gomorra
by Roberto Saviano · first published 2007
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Este increíble y fascinante relato real es un viaje al imperio empresarial y delictivo de la Camorra, que comienza y termina bajo el signo de las mercancías. Las mercancías «frescas», bajo las formas más variadas (videojuegos, relojes, ropa de marca) llegan al puerto de Nápoles, y para ser almacenadas y escondidas se sacan de los gigantescos contenedores e invaden antiguos palacetes, previamente vaciados por completo. Las mercancías muertas, procedentes de toda Italia y de media Europa, en forma de residuos químicos, restos tóxicos o fango, son vertidas abusivamente en los campos, donde env
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on “Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models” ↗Not to mention that Italy is fast on the way to becoming - if not already there - a mafia state. Reading Roberto Saviano's Gomorra opened my eyes as to how machine-like in its efficiency and hydra-like in its resiliency organized crime in Italy is with numerous sectors of the Italian state under the direct control of the mafia [1].…
on “Rome in Ruins” ↗Gomorrah (Gomorra), book by Roberto Saviano explains fashion brands business like this in detail (among others). Highly recommend, though sometimes quite depressing read.
on “Police raids found Dior was using exploitative suppliers to produce luxury bags” ↗I am not sure where are you from. I come from the area described in "Gomorra" by Saviano. We have rampant criminality and corruption. People get actually shouted around here. Those are outside forces that will come and knock to your door as soon as your activity start to be profitable.…
on “The Real Reason Italy Sucks at the Startup Game” ↗Check it again mate, it has nothing, and I said NOTHING, to do with sicilian mafia. Saviano's Gomorra narrates stories about "camorra", a criminal organization based in Campania, Naples' region. Both are criminal organizations, but are radically different from their origins to their criminal methodologies.
on “Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion” ↗I would like to shed some light on this "mafia expert". Saviano is officially known in Italy to be a writer, way more than a journalist - actually he was completely unknown before his first book "Gomorra", which made him famous, and he admitted not to be "a journalist, (nor a reporter), ... but a writer" (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/24/mafia-autho...). I would add that in Italy he is…
on “Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?” ↗