The Cuban connection [electronic resource] : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / Eduardo Sáenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em traduçãoPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.Description: xii, 247 pUniform titles:- Conexión cubana. English
- 364.1/0609729109041 22
- HV5840.C85 S2413 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.
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 Prío Socarrás 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.
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