How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

[carl winslow]

yeah this shit is real. one of the greatest movies of all time...the godfather 2... touches on this

 

[ColdBlooded]

I felt the book was fairly critical of Godfather 2.

 

[carl winslow]

godfather 2 didnt try and explain the situation or anything...but just the fact that michael and hyman roth were doing business in cuba and the movie including the castro takeover gave you the impression that there was some type of relation with the mob and cuba

 

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Yeah the Godfather really took a lot of different true life mob stories and blended them into a smoothy of fact and fiction.

It is interesting to read what really happened and then see The Godfathers ficitonal depiction.

 

[BayBoy92510]

kinda like godfather 2

bennie seagel was fucking with cuba, lansky too

 

[BayBoy92510]

godfather 2 didnt try and explain the situation or anything...but just the fact that michael and hyman roth were doing business in cuba and the movie including the castro takeover gave you the impression that there was some type of relation with the mob and cuba

So now a chicago cop with a meth addicted son whos in jail knows something about it huh

 

[ColdBlooded]

bennie seagel was fucking with cuba

So now a chicago cop with a meth addicted son whos in jail knows something about it huh

You might want to read the book. Doesn't look like you know something about it.

 

[BayBoy92510]

i wasnt talking about u when i said the chicago cop thing, but ur right i did have it wrong, moe green in the godfather was supposed to be like benny siegel who got vegas crackin



After World War II, Lansky associate Lucky Luciano was paroled from prison on the condition that he permanently return to Sicily. However, Luciano secretly moved to Cuba, where he worked to resume control over American mafia operations. Luciano also ran a number of casinos in Cuba with the sanction of Cuban president General Fulgencio Batista, though the American government succeeded in pressuring the Batista regime to deport Luciano. As Luciano's Cuban revenues grew and the tourism and gambling business blossomed, with Batista taking his own cut, Lansky himself started investing heavily in a Cuban hotel project called the Havana Riviera.

However, the 1959 Cuban revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro changed the climate for mob investment in Cuba. The new Cuban president, Manuel Urrutia Lleó closed the casinos and nationalized all the casino and hotel properties. This action essentially wiped out Lansky's asset base and revenue streams. Lansky left Cuba for the Bahamas and other Caribbean destinations. With the additional crackdown on casinos in Miami, Lansky was forced to depend on his Las Vegas revenues.

 

[ColdBlooded]

i wasnt talking about u when i said the chicago cop thing, but ur right i did have it wrong, moe green in the godfather was supposed to be like benny siegel who got vegas crackin

I know you weren't talking about me. I was talking about you when I said you didn't know what you were talking about saying Siegel was in on Cuba.


You should read the book.

 

[m.w.merlino]

I heard the authors interview on NPR and he went so in-depth about the book I didn't even feel the need to buy and read it. Very interesting information.