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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 Electronic and Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Descriptionxii, 247 p. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Uniform titleConexión cubana. English
Series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008020373
ISBN9780807831755 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807831751 (alk. paper)

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