Cuban Connection Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution

Name: Cuban Connection Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution
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ISBN: 9780807831755

ISBN-10: 0807831751

ISBN-13: 9780807831755

Edition: 2009

Authors: Eduardo Sï¿½enz Rovner, Eduardo Sï¿½enz Rovner

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A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba,The Cuban Connectionchallenges 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 Senz 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 development of organized crime structures powerful enough to affect Cuba's domestic and foreign politics and its…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.132

Eduardo Saenz Rovner is professor of history at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. He is author or editor of six other books published in Colombia.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index