I have been told that the Di Lauro and Licciardi families are more like cartels than they are mafia. Is that why they were historically at odds with the more entrepreneurial mafia families like the Zaza-mazzarellas and Nuvoletta-Polverinos?
The Camorra is not an organization like the Mafia. Neapolitans call it “the system†with resignation and pride. The Camorra offers them work, lends them money, protects them from the government, and even suppresses street crime. The problem is that periodically the Camorra also tries to tear itself apart, and when that happens, ordinary Neapolitans need to duck.
