"If I could only live to see it, to be there with you. What I wouldn't give for twenty more years! Here we are, protected, free to make our profits without Kefauver, the goddamn Justice Department and the F.B.I. ninety miles away, in partnership with a friendly government. Ninety miles! It's nothing! Just one small step, looking for a man who wants to be President of the United States, and having the cash to make it possible. Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel."
That movie was crap when it came to Cuba. They had a standard of living inthe most part on par with our own, and they had a culture in many ways superior to ours. The crime, mafia, etc was a dot on the screen that no one in Cuba noticed.