P4 - 'Ndrangheta - "The Cocaine Gateway"

<p><strong>P4 - 'Ndrangheta - "The Cocaine Gateway"</strong></p><p>The port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria has long been considered one of the main cocaine gateways into Europe. In this episode we're going to tell the story of the 'ndrangheta and this port. How its completion in the 1990s coincided with the rise of the 'ndrangheta, were certain clans control this important node of the international cocaine market.</p><p>Our guest Anna Sergi takes us from a<em> 'faida' </em>('ndrangheta feud) from her childhood in Gioia Tauro to the growth of the Piromalli <em>'ndrina</em>. And from the "mother of all extortion" to the international expansion of the 'ndrangheta. </p><p><strong>Speaker(s):</strong></p><p><a href="https://globalinitiative.net/profile/anna-sergi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anna Sergi</a>, Professor of Criminology at the University of Essex, member of the GI Network of Experts and author of the new book ‘Chasing the Mafia: 'Ndrangheta, Memories and Journeys'.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/annasergi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p><p><strong>Additional Reading</strong></p><p>(<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chasing-Mafia-Ndrangheta-Memories-Journeys/dp/1529222443/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DJPDTFD7Z7M3&amp;keywords=Chasing+the+Mafia%3A+%27Ndrangheta%2C+Memories+and+Journeys&amp;qid=1662113922&amp;sprefix=chasing+the+mafia+ndrangheta+memories+and+journeys%2Caps%2C110&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Book</a>) Chasing the Mafia: 'Ndrangheta, Memories and Journeys by Anna Sergi</p><p>(<a href="https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/clan-del-golfo-otoniel-podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Podcast</a>) Clan del Golfo: The Fall of Otoniel</p><p>(<a href="https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/transnational-tentacles-wb6/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paper</a>) - Transnational Tentacles: Global Hotspots of Balkan Organized Crime</p><p>(<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ports-Crime-Security-Governing-Policing-ebook/dp/B0984MJ