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

Saenz Rovner, Eduardo.

The Cuban connection drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / [electronic resource] : Eduardo Saenz Rovner ; translated by Russ Davidson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008. - xii, 247 p. - Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao . - Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Drug traffic--History--Cuba--20th century.
Organized crime--History--Cuba--20th century.
Gambling--History--Cuba--20th century.


United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.


Electronic books.

HV5840.C85 / S2413 2008

364.1/0609729109041