The Cuban connection : drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution

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

Author/creator	Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Description	xii, 247 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)	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.

Uniform title	Conexión cubana. English
Series	Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. ^A322448
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.
LCCN	2008020373
ISBN	9780807831755 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807831751 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HV 5840.C85 S2413 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold