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When the Mob Owned Cuba
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Decades before the 1959 revolution, the “Havana Mob” of American gangsters, led by financier Meyer Lansky, controlled Cuba. T.J. English writes of this bygone era in Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution.
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Can you ask your guest whether focusing on the mob's (admittedly entertaining) activities in Havana he does not run the risk of distorting out understanding of Cuba's economy, and hence the real longterm dynamics behind the Revolution, which based on sugar above all, and involved not shady gansters but mainstream US corporations?
Otherwise, the book sounds great, i look forward to reading it.
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