Police raided a summit of Mafia dons in Sicily yesterday and arrested Salvatore Lo Piccolo, a longtime fugitive who was vying to become the next "boss of all bosses" of the famed Cosa Nostra.
Despite Italian authorities' best efforts, the mob remains so powerful there that a recent report says it's the nation's top commercial business.
John Dickie, Italian studies professor at University College London and author of Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, explores the impact this arrest will have and how the mob stays in control.
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