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The Cuban connection : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / Eduardo Saenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo.
- Series:
- Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao.
- Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao
- Standardized Title:
- Conexión cubana. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug traffic--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Drug traffic.
- Organized crime--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Organized crime.
- Gambling--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Gambling.
- United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
- United States.
- Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.
- Cuba.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution. Eduardo Saenz Rovner argues that Cuba's historically well-established integration into international migration, commerce, and transportation networks combined with political instability and rampant official corruption to help lay the foundation for the develop
- Contents:
- U.S. prohibition and smuggling from Cuba
- Drug trafficking and political anarchy during the 1930s
- The Chinese and opium consumption in Cuba
- Corruption and drug trafficking in Cuba during the Second World War and the early postwar years
- Lucky Luciano in Cuba
- The Prio Socarras government and drug trafficking
- Gambling in Cuba
- The Andean connection
- Contacts in France
- The Batista dictatorship and drug trafficking
- Revolution
- The diplomacy of drug trafficking at the beginning of the Revolution.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-235-9
- 979-88-908806-9-7
- 1-4696-0572-4
- 0-8078-8858-3
- OCLC:
- 401386259
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