The Cuban connection : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / / Eduardo Saenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson
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| Autore: |
Saenz Rovner Eduardo
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| Titolo: |
The Cuban connection : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / / Eduardo Saenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.1/0609729109041 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drug traffic - Cuba - History - 20th century |
| Organized crime - Cuba - History - 20th century | |
| Gambling - Cuba - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations Cuba |
| Cuba Foreign relations United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Cuban connection |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0572-4 |
| 0-8078-8858-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815105603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao.