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The transatlantic conspiracy consisted of mafiosi from both sides of the Atlantic with the American element being the driving force: “the Sicilian Mafia was involved in the narcotics trade only because of its connection with the American Mafia” (p. 138).
The Mafia bridge across the Atlantic that Lupo describes is primarily one between the Bonanno family in New York and mafiosi in Castellammarese, Sicily. This connection, he suggests, was “terminated for good” (p. 159) in the early 1980s in the course of the violent internal conflict that ended with Toto Riina’s rise to power within the Sicilian Mafia. The links between the two Mafias were further weakened when in the mid-1980s, in the era of the Commission trial in New York and of the maxi-trial in Palermo, both organizations “were hit hard simultaneously, thus prohibiting Mafiosi from playing their old game of moving from one side of the Atlantic to the other when they were in trouble” (p. 183).
The Two Mafias: A Transatlantic History, 1888-2008.
Salvatore Lupo
