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Author Saenz Rovner, Eduardo.

Uniform Title Conexion cubana. English
Title The Cuban connection [electronic resource] : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / Eduardo Saenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 247 p.
Series Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao
Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao.
Bibliography 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 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Drug traffic -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Organized crime -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Gambling -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba.
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807831755 (alk. paper)
0807831751 (alk. paper)

 
    
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