Posted on 08/19/2008 9:05:26 AM PDT by slickeroo
"How the Mob Owned Cuba, and Lost it to the Revolution," is the bestselling book's title. T.J. English is the author.
Several facts get in the way of the books title and thesis. To wit: Cuba's Gross Domestic product in 1957 was $2.7 billion. Cuba's foreign receipts in 1957 were about $750 million--of which tourism made up only $60 million. Gambling was a small fraction of this $60 million. How could the beneficiaries of that tiny fraction of Cuba's income "own" the entire country, and "infiltrate its levers of power from top to bottom," as the book asserts? Well, we have it on the good authority of Castro regime officials, primary sources for this book, which neglects to mention how "the Revolution" has made multiple times that few million in cahoots with Colombia's cocaine cowboys.
"We lived like kings in Cuba," revealed Medellin Cartel bosses Carlos Lehder and Alejandro Bernal during their trials. "Fidel made sure nobody bothered us." The Cocaine cartel's deal with Castro made Meyer Lansky's with Batista look like a nickel and dime gratuity.
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