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Mafia in The Bahamas
by admin on Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:40 am
People laugh when I talk about the Bahamian mafia, but it is no joke.
There really is a culture of organized crime in The Bahamas, even if it isn't as organized as in other nations. (I mean, what in The Bahamas works efficiently? Nothing!)
I was reading The Guardian (the real one, in England) and I came across an article by Roberto Mancini on the Italian mafia.
Mancini quotes Piero Ostellino, the former editor and journalist of Il Corriere Della Sera, the most distinguished and conservative of all Italian newspapers. This is how Ostellino describes Italy today, in the preface to his new book Lo stato canaglia (The scoundrel state):
| Quote: | | A country paralysed by a huge number of laws and regulations, suffocated by an invasive and slow-witted bureaucratic culture; run by a plethoric, costly, inefficient, and often corrupted, civil service; oppressed by punitive fiscal laws for those who pay their taxes and absent-minded towards those who don't; the prisoner of guild or nepotistic interests; from Rome southwards, in the hands of organised crime. A country in a relentless cultural, economic, political decline. This is Italy today. |
Sounds like he is talking about The Bahamas, no?
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