The Silent Shadows of a (Willingly) Forgotten Rome –

by Bruno Di Tillo

There is a place in Rome where Marijuana is stored in fake tree branches and rocks; where heroin is sold in small grocery bags and brought by elderly ladies walking with a crouch. There is a place where silent individuals guard both entrances and exits to ensure that the area will never be busted by police force. There is a place where fear and dust are one. There is a place where teens don’t come to smoke but rather come to buy dreams for a shallow fee. There is a place where every story becomes important, but all truth is omitted. There is a place where the earth is that a color one day and another the one after because of the different ethnic groups that choose that place as a temporary bed.

 That place is ***** *****.

 Abukar stands in his corner of the park, looking vaguely in the direction of the approaching car. As he turns, covering his hands making the quick dial to his friend

Mors tua Vitae Mea: A brief comment on Italy’s populist victory

by Bruno Di Tillo

A short premise: I will not be talking about why the NO vote lost with technicalities, but I’ll mostly make a commentary from the social point of view.

So, Italy has voted NO to the referendum on December 4^th 2016, thus marking the end of the Renzi centrist government, but is it really such a big surprise? For years, the common Joes of the country have been lingering on the hope of change. But an establishment government in which its head Matteo Renzi, a man not elected by the commoners or the industrial workers but by behind-the-scenes governmental apparatus, could certainly not bring forth the so needed change that his country needed. What exactly did he propose with this referendum?