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

Contents

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 U.S. Prohibition and Smuggling from Cuba 17 2 Drug Trafficking and Political Anarchy during the 1930s 31 3 The Chinese and Opium Consumption in Cuba 45 4 Corruption and Drug Trafficking in Cuba during the Second World War and the Early Postwar Years 57 5 Lucky Luciano in Cuba 65 6 The Prío Socarrás Government and Drug Trafficking 75 7 Gambling in Cuba 81 8 The Andean Connection 95 9 Contacts in France 103 10 The Batista Dictatorship and Drug Trafficking 113 11 Revolution 123 12 The Diplomacy of Drug Trafficking at the Beginning of the Revolution 135 Epilogue 147 Notes 153 Bibliography 211 Index 237 Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This page intentionally left blank ...