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Havana was once an outpost for the American mafia — a playground where organized crime families bought off local officials, raked in cash from drugs and gambling, and generally did as they pleased. Today, Chinese crime syndicates have set up their pseudo-colonies in parts Myanmar and are as big as small cities, housing casinos, brothels and, most-notoriously, scam compounds. Patrick Winn reports.