Adonis Diaries

Caribbean Island of Saint Martin: Where all the mafias conglomerate…

The Island of Saint Martin is located between Cuba and Porto Rico. It is divided between:

1. The Netherlands side of the Far West type where all is permitted as long as you pay your taxes: Money white washing, gambling, prostitution, drug trafficking, off-shore financial multinationals… The American tourists land already drunk and intent on spending time in the Casinos of Samana

2. The French side where nothing is permitted and falling apart

After Fidel Castro of Cuba nationalized the US mafias casinos and hotels in 1960, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano who “upgraded” the Cosa Nostra activities turned their businesses to the Caribbean Islands and transformed them into tourism and mafia destinations.

The CIA purpose was to never let Communism get any hold on these Islands and surround Cuba with “Capitalism” environment.

The port of Phillipsburg is the transit of cocaine destined to Florida

During the Cold War period, governments used and abused of the mafias and corruption was endemic in all these “Parliamentary Democracies“.

Max Weber described corruption an inherent plague in “Parliamentary Democracies” in order to allow only the “moderate factions” to win election.

In the 1990’s, the mafias from all over the world had a foot in Saint Martin and they were waging an all out wars against their governments.

Italy was crumbling under the bloody attacks and bombing of judges and political figures.

Russia was in the hands of oligarchs who bought for nothing State institutions

Columbia was at the mercy of Pablo Escobar

Peru was totally bought by the drug lords from its President Fujimori to its secret service chief Vladimiro Montesinos.

England was reeking under numerous scandals.

Globalization of mafia activities from Tokyo, Bogota, Marseilles, Naples, New York… were feeding corrupt financial multinationals with liquidity in order to stay afloat.

Roberto Saviano of “Gomorrah” and “Zero zero zero” claims that there is a direct link among the long financial crisis of Japan (1990), Russia (1990), Mexico (1994), Thailand (1997)… and the criminal organizations that went global.

Nothing has changed: Too much news coverage and counter laws, but corruption business cannot stop  as long as it is expensive to get elected and play politics

Note 1: David Defendi in “The Cleaners: Spies and crooks at the service of States”