WikiLeaks cables portrait of Silvio Berlusconi is a worry beyond Italy
Vain, macho, obsessed with the cult of personality, autocratic, with a soft spot for the ladies and an undisputed mastery of disinformation, he controls vast chunks of the economy of his country, where the boundaries between the running of the state and mafia-style organised crime and corruption seem, at times, dangerously confused.
Who is this: Vladamir Putin or Silvio Berlusconi? In the eyes of their critics, the match between the two men appeared to be made in heaven, or rather hell, from day one.
Watching the pair holidaying together in Berlusconi's Sardinia villas, or in Putin's dacha, most informed Italians have instinctively felt that such an intimate alliance could only be the cause of concern.… Seguir leyendo »