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Dr Francesco Guerra

Analyst at Centro Studi AMIStaDeS APS, Rome, Italy; Independent Researcher and Blogger at LatinoAmericando.org

Francesco Guerra is an Italian historian, investigative analyst, and independent researcher specializing in comparative and transnational organized crime, with a focus on the Brazilian Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Italian mafia organizations, drug trafficking routes, prison management, and criminal ties between Latin America and Europe. He holds a PhD from the University of Pisa, later formally recognized as a doctorate in History by the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), where he served as a postdoctoral researcher from 2015 to 2020.

He is currently an analyst at the Organized Crime Observatory of the AMIStaDeS Study Center in Rome, where he focuses on organized crime in Latin America and transnational organized crime. He previously served as Senior Scientific Coordinator of a project funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on European cooperation against organized crime and drug trafficking in Latin America. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of LatinoAmericando, an independent blog on organized crime, illicit markets, and criminal ties between Latin America and Europe, as well as the author of books, academic articles, policy reports, and popular analysis on these topics.

 

Publications
  • Guerra, F., & de Paula Sales Moreira Junior, C. (2025). Cosa Nostra e a sociedade siciliana: A lição de Giovanni Falcone na luta contro a máfia. Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, 18(2), e67537.
  • Briguglio, A., Guerra, F., Piraino, M., Romei, U., Hirata, D. V., Grillo, C. C., Dirk, R. C., & Pestana, M. C. (2025). Brasile: la frontiera liquida del narcotraffico. Centro Studi AMIStaDeS APS.
  •  Guerra, F. (2024). As mãos das milícias sobre o Brasil. In C. de Paula Sales Moreira Junior & M. C. Narcizo (Eds.), Américas Latinas em Perspectiva: Contribuições teóricas, políticas, culturais e econômicas (pp. 114–142). EDUA/UFAM & Alexa Cultural.
  • Guerra, F. (2023). Di Brasile e America Latina. Storie di politica, (in)giustizia, narcos e pandemia. Reality Book.
  • Guerra, F. (2020). Entre as margens do Atlântico: História e direito internacional no trânsito de criminosos entre a Europa e as Américas na seconda metade do século XX. Revista de Teoria da História, 23(1), 126–138.
  • Guerra, F. (2020). Tribunalização da política na Itália entre a Primeira República e a Operação Mãos Limpas. Revista de Teoria da História, 23(1), 317–330.
  • Guerra, F. (2020). Da tribunalização da política à tribunalização da História: Emergências do tempo presente. In Teoria e História da Historiografia no século XXI (pp. 49–71). Editora Milfontes.

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