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Santo Trafficante: Havana Nights, Killing Castro and the King of Florida

2023/12/5
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Danny Gold和Sean Williams讲述了Santo Trafficante家族在古巴的活动，以及他们与CIA合作试图暗杀卡斯特罗的计划。他们详细描述了Trafficante家族的崛起，他们在古巴的赌场和酒店生意，以及卡斯特罗上台后他们面临的挑战。节目中还探讨了美国黑手党与CIA之间的关系，以及他们参与的各种阴谋活动。 Danny Gold和Sean Williams深入分析了Santo Trafficante Jr. 的生平和职业生涯，以及他如何继承父亲的事业，成为佛罗里达州黑社会的老大。他们讲述了Trafficante家族与其他黑手党家族的关系，以及他们在佛罗里达州的活动。节目中还探讨了Trafficante家族的财富来源，以及他们如何利用政治关系来发展业务。

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Santo Trafficante Sr. starts his criminal career by setting up an illegal lottery called the Bolita, impressing powerful mobster Ignacio Antinori who invites him to join his crime family, leading to the expansion of the Bolita operation along the Gulf Coast.

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The Trafficante crime family ruled Florida for decades, earning the respect and admiration of powerful mobsters like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Sam Giancana. Santo Trafficante Sr arrived in Tampa as a boy from Sicily and took to the underworld with a talent for business, setting up the illegal lottery known as the Bolita before using his Spanish skills to make him indispensable to the powerful five families who wanted to set up shop in Cuba.

When his son, Santo Jr, took the reigns, they soon controlled casinos, nightclubs and luxury hotels, as well as narcotics trafficking routes, from Cuba to Miami to Tampa. But the heady days of Fulgencio Batista's Cuba was coming to a close, and the Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro were going to complicate things. So much so that Trafficante soon found himself in one of America's strangest alliances and even stranger assassination plots.

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