The Cuban Connection: Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution (Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução) - Softcover

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Rovner, Eduardo Saenz

 
9781469632100: The Cuban Connection: Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution (Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1469632101 ISBN 13: 9781469632100
Verlag: University of North Carolina Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution. Eduardo Sáenz Rovner argues that Cuba’s historically well-established integration into international migration, commerce, and transportation networks combined with political instability and rampant official corruption to help lay the foundation for the development of organized crime structures powerful enough to affect Cuba’s domestic and foreign politics and its very identity as a nation. Sáenz traces the routes taken around the world by traffickers and smugglers. After Cuba, the most important player in this story is the United States. The involvement of gangsters and corrupt U.S. officials and businessmen enabled prohibited substances to reach a strong market in the United States, from rum running during Prohibition to increased demand for narcotics during the Cold War. Originally published in Colombia in 2005, this first English-language edition has been revised and updated by the author.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eduardo Saenz Rovner is professor of history at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. He is author or editor of six other books published in Colombia.

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Verlag
University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1469632101
ISBN 13 
9781469632100
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
262
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