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...Palermo. The senior Lo Piccolo, sporting a leather jacket and a mane of white hair and beard, shared only a vague resemblance with the most recent composite sketch. On the premises, police found weapons, cash, fake identification and the tiny handwritten notes that Provenzano also utilized for communicating among mob bosses. Italian media report that the younger Lo Piccolo, who himself had been on the lam for more than a decade, repeatedly called out his love to his father as he was being taken away in handcuffs...
...Piccolo, a native of the Tommaso Natale neighborhood of western Palermo, had been Provenzano's top lieutenant in the capital while grooming his son for succession. Since his ascension in the wake of Provenzano's capture, police say Lo Piccolo was also focused on expanding ties with the American mob. He had favored allowing a historic Mafia family to return to the Sicilian capital after more than two decades of forced exile in the United States, following an internal mob war in the 1980s. Dubbed "gli scappati" (the fled ones), the Inzerillo family had been on the verge of total...
...inept and often corrupt law-enforcement and justice system has left 98 percent of cases unsolved, prompting some citizens to take the law into their own hands. On Thursday, for example, an angry mob in the small town of San Juan Sacatepequez captured and burned alive three teenagers suspected of belonging to a street gang. Perez Molina has built support by promising to put more soldiers on the streets to fight crime, and to use the death penalty more frequently. He also supports temporarily suspending some constitutional rights in crime-ridden areas, a tactic used several times last year...
...Despite their vices, dynasties often retain their hold on people. Bhutto and Hasina remain genuinely popular, while crowds mob Gandhi and his sister Priyanka. From India to China, many people still place a high priority on helping their family first - business dynasties control some of the largest Indian companies, and princelings dominate sectors of the Chinese economy - so average citizens simply may look at family politics as normal. The fascination with celebrities also helps the dynasties, which produce known quantities ready for their close...
...blocking off the street, but no one seemed to think it was racially motivated. Several people did get a good laugh from looking up the lyrics of the hip-hop song that had supposedly started the fight (“Knuck If You Buck,” by Crime Mob). One of my blockmates even reported that her Spanish class had excitedly discussed the fight at “the black students’ party.” I’ve heard so many condemnations of the fight and explanations for the police response that night, all of them...