Eduardo Saenz Rovner's historical analysis challenges common views on the causes of organized crime in Cuba. The work traces international trafficking routes and argues that Cuba's integration into global networks, combined with political instability and corruption, fostered crime structures that influenced national politics. This first English-language edition, revised in 2005, examines the period from the 1920s up to the Cuban Revolution.
Use Cases
- Historical analysis of organized crime networks based on the described international migration and commerce links.
- Studying the relationship between political corruption and crime based on the argument of official corruption enabling criminal structures.
- Examining U.S.-Cuba transnational crime history based on the described involvement of U.S. gangsters, officials, and businessmen.
- Investigating socio-economic drivers of crime based on the challenge to poverty and proximity as primary causes.
Strengths
- Analysis is based on a revised and updated English-language edition of a work originally published in 2005.
- The work provides a specific temporal focus on the decades preceding the Cuban Revolution, from the 1920s onward.
Limitations
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Provenance
- Source
- Eduardo Sáenz Rovner
- Collection Method
- Historical research and analysis.
- Time Range
- 1920s to the Cuban Revolution
- Geography
- Cuba, with international connections, particularly to the United States.