Informant38

Let's see. Meyer Lansky ran Cuba under Batista. Castro kicked out all the scammers and corrupt swine. Lansky's headquarters were in Florida. He did the start-up on Vegas. He ran the Mafia, or ran the thing that ran the Mafia, during the heyday of things Mafiosi. All that talk of "Cubans" and "the Mob" around the Kennedy assassination and Lansky never gets mentioned. Jack Ruby's real name was Rubenstein. There's been a big resurgence, a "resurgency" around gambling as America's gotten more decadent and morally imbalanced, and now Vegas is touting itself as a kind of Disneyland for middle-class hedonists. And there's whispers at the edge of things that Cuba's on the short-list for extreme democracy makeovers. Lansky and his business empire ran the drug trade during most of the twentieth century, the serious drug trade anyway.
Haiti had an extreme democracy makeover recently, around which there was talk that the incoming political personnel were tied in, and the outgoing personnel (Aristide et al) were not, that Aristide was in fact suppressing and eliminating wholesale drug activity, a "business unfriendly" climate in Haiti under Dr. Aristide, much like Cuba under Castro.
There have been whispers all along that Kennedy got done because he blocked the invasion of Cuba. Which would have let all those "Cubans" back at their troughs in the big hotels and brothel-estancias of pre-revolution days.
Hemingway opposed Batista's granting the gambling concession to Lansky, Batista did it anyway.
JEdgarHoover never touched "organized crime" when it was shaking out, except here and there, more like an enforcer than an eliminator, and never ever connected anybody but cheese-eaters to it when he did finally get forced into saying and doing something about it. Which seems emphasizable given Lansky and Siegel's two prongs to Lucky Luciano's third in the troika.
Hemingway toward the end of his life kept complaining to people the feds were reading his mail. People kept blowing him off as a paranoid old fading macho. Turns out the feds were pretty consistently reading his mail.
There's whispers that Haiti's the western Atlantic version to Ghana's eastern. Ghana being a major trans-shipment point for heroin and cocaine back-and-forthing between their jungly Third World points of origin and the urban hives of the Free World. Ghana and Haiti have a lot in common. A staging area where there's virtually no danger to businessmen who are tied in. Lots of desperate poor, scrambled-up local economies, thugs with badges and clipboards and computers, lax to non-existent record-keeping.