{"id":396,"date":"2010-11-16T18:06:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2010-11-16T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:06:05","slug":"saviano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Saviano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Saviano&#8217;s remarkable talk on <em>Vieni Via con Me<\/em> (which is really making the news this week) got over 5 million viewers last night.  There&#8217;s a reason: it&#8217;s provocative and damned good, featuring the reenactment of an &#8216;ndragheta initiation rite and accusations of Lega Nord involvement with organized crime that&#8217;s sent Interior Minister and Lega Nord old hand Roberto Maroni into a tizzy.  He also takes on the massive building enterprises in Milan, especially around my old &#8216;hood of P.ta Garibaldi.  Of course, all-Italian, but I&#8217;ll look for or provide a translation in coming days.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4aCTqEg5Ygc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4aCTqEg5Ygc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Like certain other Italians, Saviano is both fearless and a survivor.  He lived with a police escort after he named names at Casal di Principe in 2006, and there&#8217;s strong evidence that the Casalesi clan planned to kill him in 2008, after which he left the country.  So here&#8217;s to hoping that one of the few brave voices in Italian public life is in an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Saviano&#8217;s remarkable talk on Vieni Via con Me (which is really making the news this week) got over 5 million viewers last night. There&#8217;s a reason: it&#8217;s provocative and damned good, featuring the reenactment of an &#8216;ndragheta initiation rite and accusations of Lega Nord involvement with organized crime that&#8217;s sent Interior Minister and Lega &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saviano&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,46],"tags":[121,230,440,327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}