Anonymous ID: 04f20d June 28, 2020, 7:03 p.m. No.9782320   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2341

It is easy to get lost in this world without a moral compass. Get one today and learn what is right and what is wrong and which direction to go.

Anonymous ID: 04f20d June 28, 2020, 7:24 p.m. No.9782504   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2531

Mobsters in Havana: a brief history of the Cuban Mafia

It is hard to believe that the Cuba we know now once was flourishing with nightclubs, casinos, cabarets, and bordellos, and was basically called the Las Vegas of the Caribbean. However, it is true that during the first half of the XX century the American mafia openly operated in Cuba, and even arranged their activities with the government of the island. Some say the goal of the mobsters was to take over the country, allowing them to take organized crime to a higher level.

 

The American mafia started its activities in Cuba as early as in the 1920s, during the American prohibition, when they would use Cuba as a base to for rum running and the smuggling of other alcoholic drinks. It was not until September 1933 when Meyer Lansky arrived in Cuba that things began to turn serious.

 

Meyer Lansky was a major American organized crime figure who quickly took control over Havana’s casino. Cuban historians claim that during Lanksy’s 1933 visit, his main goal was to meet the Cuban Armed Forces Chief Fulgencio Batista, who would later become President of the island, and offer him a 3-million-dollar bribe in exchange for support from the armed forces. He was successful, and so in 1940, after Batista became the President, the mafia in Cuba entered its “Golden years”.

 

Lucky Luciano is another important name among the Mafiosi that operated in Cuba during the period. He was the one who reorganized the structure of American mafia in the ‘30s, when it started its activity in Cuba, thus, Lucky Luciano controlled all the actions of the emerging Cuban mafia. He also expanded the mafia’s activity in Cuba from control over the island’s casinos, to making the island a midway point in drug dealing routes, from where heroin could be safely transferred to the US.

 

A major event in the history of Cuban mafia was the 1946 Havana Conference. Organized by Lucky Luciano, it was the second most important mob summit since the 1929 Atlantic City Conference. The Havana Conference was held in the Hotel Nacional, where the main figures of the American and Italian mafias discussed some important aspects of their activity, such as the policy against drug trade. This scene was famously featured in The Godfather:

 

https://whynotcuba.com/mobsters-in-havana-a-brief-history-of-the-cuban-mafia/