03322nam 2200649 a 450 991077796130332120200520144314.01-4696-0572-40-8078-8858-3(CKB)1000000000764472(EBL)454799(OCoLC)401386259(SSID)ssj0000133246(PQKBManifestationID)11132087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133246(PQKBWorkID)10041686(PQKB)10813246(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245716(MdBmJHUP)muse23517(Au-PeEL)EBL454799(CaPaEBR)ebr10310770(MiAaPQ)EBC454799(EXLCZ)99100000000076447220080505d2008 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe Cuban connection[electronic resource] drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution /Eduardo Sáenz Rovner ; translated by Russ DavidsonChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20081 online resource (262 p.)Latin America in translation/en traducción/em traduçãoDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-3210-1 0-8078-3175-1 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.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 developLatin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.Drug trafficCubaHistory20th centuryOrganized crimeCubaHistory20th centuryGamblingCubaHistory20th centuryUnited StatesForeign relationsCubaCubaForeign relationsUnited StatesDrug trafficHistoryOrganized crimeHistoryGamblingHistory364.1/0609729109041Sáenz Rovner Eduardo1522206MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777961303321The Cuban connection3761805UNINA