The Cuban Connection - Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Offering a comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba! this book 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. Zusammenfassung Offering a comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba! this book 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.

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• Authors: Eduardo Saenz Rovner, Eduardo Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo Saenz/ Davidson Rovner, Eduardo Saenz Rovner, Eduardo Sáenz Rovner
• Assisted by: Russ Davidson (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780807831755
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-3175-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Latin America in translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao; Latin America in Translation/enTraduccion/em Traducao; Latin America in Translation; Latin America in translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao; Latin America in Translation/E
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology