Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
xii, 247 p.
Series:
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
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.
