Editing Tommaso Buscetta (section)

==Early life==
Tommaso Buscetta was born on 13 July 1928, in [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]], the youngest of 17 children; his father was a [[glazier]].<ref name="death">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/06/world/tommaso-buscetta-71-dies-first-italian-mafia-informer.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326101033/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/06/world/tommaso-buscetta-71-dies-first-italian-mafia-informer.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 26, 2014|title=Tommaso Buscetta, 71, Dies; First Italian Mafia Informer - New York Times|website=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 26, 2014}}</ref> Buscetta was raised in [[Kalsa]],<ref name="Zuliani">{{cite web |last1=Zuliani |first1=Nicolò |title=Due granchi, la piovra e un pacchetto di sigarette |url=https://thevision.com/cultura/falcone-borsellino-buscetta/ |website=The Vision |access-date=22 December 2020 |language=it-IT |date=11 June 2018}}</ref> a poverty-stricken area of Palermo, which he escaped by getting involved with crime at a young age. He first became involved with the [[Sicilian Mafia]] in 1945, and in the following years, he became a full-fledged member of the [[Porta Nuova (Palermo)|Porta Nuova]] [[mandamento (Sicilian Mafia)|mandamento]], where he worked mostly in [[cigarette smuggling]].

Buscetta married his first wife Melchiorra Cavallaro in 1944 and had three children. In 1949, he moved to Argentina and then to Brazil, where he opened a glassworks store, but in 1956, he returned to Palermo where he joined [[Angelo La Barbera]] and [[Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco]] together with mafiosi Antonino Sorci, Pietro Davì and [[Gaetano Badalamenti]], dealing with the cigarette and drug smuggling.<ref name="archiviolatorre_1">{{Cite web|url=http://archiviopiolatorre.camera.it/img-repo/DOCUMENTAZIONE/Antimafia/02_rel_a1.pdf|title=Sintesi delle conclusioni del comitato per le indagini sui singoli mafiosi, sul traffico di stupefacenti e sul legame tra fenomeno mafioso e gangsterismo americano|publisher=Documenti della Commissione Parlamentare Antimafia - VI LEGISLATURA|language=it}}</ref> He married his second wife Vera Girotti in 1966 and had one child. Two years later, he married his third wife Cristina De Almeida Guimarães after moving to Brazil, and had four children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1993/11/18/don-masino-il-conquistatore.html|title=DON MASINO IL CONQUISTATORE - la Repubblica.it|website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it|date=18 November 1993 |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1986/11/12/don-masino-odioso-canterino.html|title=DON MASINO L' ODIOSO CANTERINO - la Repubblica.it|website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it|date=12 November 1986|language=it}}</ref> In 1958 he was arrested for cigarette smuggling and criminal association during an investigation conducted by the [[Guardia di Finanza]] against the [[Corsicans|Corsican]] Pascal Molinelli and the [[Tangier|Tangerian]] Salomon Gozal, indicated as major suppliers of cigarettes and drugs for the Sicilian gangs. In January 1959 he was arrested again for the smuggling of two tons of cigarettes to supply [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].<ref name="archiviolatorre_2">{{Cite web|url=http://archiviopiolatorre.camera.it/img-repo/DOCUMENTAZIONE/Antimafia/02_rel_4.pdf|title=La nuova mafia|publisher=Documenti della Commissione Parlamentare Antimafia - VI LEGISLATURA|language=it}}</ref>