Earthquake in Irpinia, 30 years later

November 23 rd 1980. Thirty years ago. At 19.32 the earth trembled in the south, as did for years. The fury fell upon the towns and cities of Campania and Basilicata, the "bone" gnawed a South already hopeless. Three thousand deads, thousands wounded, towns razed to the ground in seconds. Million with no house, Balvano with the old and the children held hands waiting for the priest's blessing , Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi with his hospital crumpled, mortally wounded the Lucania. The state arrived there with a partisan president, Sandro Pertini, who three days later (it was November 26) arrives in the "crater" and was outraged. "There were no immediate relief that there should be", said on television. "I still hear the rubble moans, cries of despairs buried alive." The face of the man loved by the whole country, his words spoken in a trembling voice, shook Italy and in thousands, young men and women, industrial workers, technicians, teachers, arrived in the South were the volunteers, an army of good people who still believed in solidarity . It was the last episode, before the breakdown of these years, a large mobilization of North and South. After the earthquake reconstruction, often made of waste, unfinished works and always postponed: € 32,363,593,779 (50.000.000.000 CAD) spent to date, an enormous sum that has enriched speculators, greedy developers, politicians, business scams , large financial groups and the Camorra.