Marie Claire Jauregui, 40 came to Abruzzo in 1993 with husband Nick Cocco, whom she met in Canada, where her socialist family had taken refuge after Pinochet took power. Her mother Nelly Andrade Bernè was Labour Minister in the Allende government. She remembers the sight of the Acongagua, Pablo Neruda, Horacio, Marcelo, Jorge of the "Inti Illimani". In Montesilvano, thanks to the climate and the sea, she feels she is at home again.

Spaghetti and guns, agida and killings. The most famous mafiosi family now also on the Italian TV. The capo is Tony Soprano, starring James Gandolfini, a mafioso, with wife, children, a mistress and a psychoanalyst. The cult movie has created a great business of shirts, cups, videos, ties etc.

Some words of the Sopranos' jargon are by now acquired to American English AGIDA meaning restless, angry, CAPO, the clan boss, CUGINE, a mafia apprentice, GOOMBA and GOMAH, meaning compare and comare, that is Italian American men and women.

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