Calabria remains the epicenter of production, and the cosmetics and tea industries are the primary customers.
But the atmosphere was marred by the assassination of the deputy governor of the Calabria region.
Rosarno is in Calabria, the toe of Italy, a lawless place at the best of times.
How long it takes to drive from Salerno to Reggio di Calabria is a matter of chance.
Our guests are Tsedeye Gebreselassie of the National Employment Law Project and Mark Calabria from the Cato Institute.
Some supporters claim that the bridge will accelerate the development of the backward economies of Calabria and Sicily.
But they won't be the ones who pour out of rusty ships on to the hostile shores of Calabria.
Calabria and Malta, where the artist spent the last 38 years of his life, have always had close connections.
The 'ndrangheta, Calabria's home-bred Mafia, widely reckoned more deadly than Sicily's Cosa Nostra, is always clear when it sends a message.
Mr Callipo heads the fourth generation of his family's tuna-processing business near Pizzo, towards the southern end of Calabria's west coast.
Since 1892, scientists have recorded at least 1, 173 serious landslides in Campania and in another almost equally shaky southern region, Calabria.
Laviani identified the alleged assailant as Luigi Preiti, a 49-year-old from Calabria, a southern agricultural area plagued by organized crime and chronic unemployment.
The painting was unscathed in the great Messina earthquake of 1908, which killed some 200, 000 people and destroyed thousands of buildings in Sicily and Calabria.
The entire council of the city of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy has been sacked to stop it from being taken over by the mafia, officials say.
The final takes place on 7-8 November in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and the hosts will be represented by Flavia Pennetta, Francesca Schiavone, Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani.
Preiti's uncle, interviewed by Sky, said the alleged gunman had moved back to his parents' home in Calabria because he could no longer find work as a bricklayer.
But Calabria remains firmly in the grip of the 'Ndrangheta, and Naples and its surrounding region of Campania are still in thrall to the Camorra (see article).
Italy's poorest region, Calabria, returned the highest no vote: 82%.
With a payroll of 200, the sparkling factory, where around 7, 000 tonnes of up-market gourmet tuna are bottled and canned every year, is one of Calabria's biggest private employers.
The leader of his People of Freedom party's youth wing, Annagrazia Calabria, talks of the need to create "a dynamic market", an Italy where hiring and firing workers would be easier.
Investigators said the businessman from Alcamo, in western Sicily, had ''maintained constant relations with members of Cosa Nostra'' in Sicily, as well as having contacts with the 'Ndrangheta mafia in Calabria, on the Italian mainland.
After the end of the 2nd world war, the Italian Government undertook an extensive campaign against illiteracy in southern Italy - statistics from the 1930's indicated 40% of illiteracy on Sicily, 46% in Lucania and 48% in Calabria.
Often businessmen are the recipients and targets of the action that follows, creating a state of fear that led Pippo Callipo, president of Confindustria Calabria, the regional employers' association, to write to Italy's president a year ago to ask for the army to be sent in.
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