The Cuban Connection
Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution
By Eduardo Sáenz Rovner
Translated by Russ Davidson
264 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 2 tables, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-3210-0
Published: June 2016 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-8858-2
Published: June 2009 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-8069-7
Published: June 2009
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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.
About the Author
Eduardo Sáenz Rovner is professor of history at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. He is author or editor of six other books published in Colombia.
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Reviews
"A valuable addition to that corpus of historical research on Cuba that confronts official myths that it is all too easy to leave unchallenged."--Latin American Review of Books
"This meticulously researched and cogently argued work represents a major contribution to Cuban history. . . . Accessibly written and powerfully insightful."--Choice
"This exhaustively researched text will be of great use to scholars of twentieth-century Cuba, U.S.-Cuban relations, and the global drug trade."--H-Net Reviews
"This book fills some Cuban niches untouched by North American scholars. . . . [It] brings to light new documentation regarding Cubans, non-Cuban traffickers, and people who used Cuba as a logistical base from the era of prohibition to the Cuban Revolution. . . . There is no doubt that Saenz Rovner gives Cuba the coverage it deserves."--American Historical Review
"A unique contribution to the fields of Latin American history, U.S. foreign relations, and narcotics studies. . . . Great credit is due to the author for locating this data and producing such a concise account based on it."--Hispanic American Historical Review
“Valuable for fields such as political science and sociology and interdisciplinary areas such as Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and criminal justice . . . . A worthy read.”--New West Indian Guide