Research Catalog

Title

The Cuban connection : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / Eduardo Sáenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson.

Author

Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xii, 247 p.; 25 cm.

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 development of organized crime structures powerful enough to affect Cuba's domestic and foreign politics and its very identity as a nation." "Saenz traces the routes taken around the world by traffickers and smugglers. After Cuba, the most important player in this story is the United States. The involvement of gangsters and corrupt U.S. officials and businessmen enabled prohibited substances to reach a strong market in the United States, from rum running during Prohibition to increased demand for narcotics during the Cold War. Originally published in Colombia in 2005, the book has been revised and updated by the author for this first English-language edition."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

Uniform Title

• Conexión cubana. English
• Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.

Alternative Title

Conexión cubana.

Subjects

• Organized crime > Cuba > History > 20th century
• Gambling > Cuba > History > 20th century
• Cuba > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Cuba
• Drug traffic > Cuba > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.

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 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.

Call Number

JHE 10-271

ISBN

• 9780807831755 (alk. paper)
• 0807831751 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008020373

OCLC

227205906

Author

Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo.

Title

The Cuban connection : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / Eduardo Sáenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson.

Imprint

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

Series

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Other Form:

Online version: Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo. Conexión cubana. English. Cuban connection. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 (OCoLC)608211717

Research Call Number

JHE 10-271