Word: latifondisti
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Next day the Palermo shooting continued, casualties increased. The New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews investigated. His judgment: the riots were due in part to economic misery, lack of food. But agents .provocateurs of the powerful Latifondisti (big land owners) had used this misery to promote Sicilian revolt...
Semifeudal Latifondisti, powerful landowners long protected by Fascism, saw in independence a chance to prolong their rule. Sicilians in general saw in Italy the source of all their recent grief. They flocked around Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, energetic mouthpiece for Sicilian separatism, and nominal head of the maffia...
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