For half a century, the people of Corleone had lived in a kind of mafia fiftum, where they were terrorized into obedient silence. When the local paper in the 1980s suggested a link between the Mafia and local political figures, its office was firebomb. Nicolso says that it was only after the 2006 of Rena's successor, Provenzano, that people began to express their opinions freely