Transcript: Profile: Despite anti-Mafia efforts, Cosa Nostra is quietly re-emerging under new guises

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Profile: Despite anti-Mafia efforts, Cosa Nostra is quietly re-emerging under new guises

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It's NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams.

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For many years, the Italian island of Sicily was synonymous with the Mafia, also known as the Cosa Nostra. After the Second World War, the Sicilian Mafia grew in strength and wealth. It forged close links to the Italian political establishment. But over the last decade, a courageous new generation of magistrates and politicians has gained ground in the battle against the Mob, and ...

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