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.
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.
