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The Cuban Connection
A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection 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. Eduardo Saenz Rovner argues that Cuba's historically well-established integration into international migration, commerce, and transportation networks combined with political instability and rampant official corruption to help lay the foundation for the development of organized crime structures powerful enough to affect Cuba's domestic and foreign politics and its v...
Conexión cubana
For years Eduardo Sáenz Rovner has studied like few others the phenomenon of drug trafficking on a global scale. In this new book, he presents the early origins of drug trafficking in Colombia since the 1930s and its rapid growth since the 1960s and 1970s. Through declassified documents from a score of archives that include the National Archives and the Presidential Archives of the United States, as well as extensive documentation from the General Archive of the Nation and the Archive of the Presidency of the Republic in Bogotá, Sáenz Rovner reviews no only to these historical antecedents but to how drug trafficking has set the tone in the bilateral relations of the two countries since the 1970s. --
Colombia años 50
Laureano Gómez, entre la ideología y el pragmatismo - Los antecedentes de la reversión de la concesión de mares - La fundación de la Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos - La misión del Banco Mundial en Colombia - La administración Gómez y la Andi - El interregno de Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez - "El golpe de opinión"--Primeros meses de gobierno de Rojas Pinilla y la Reforma Tributaria - Business as usual y el asesinato de los estudiantes universitarios - Termina la luna de miel con los políticos - Un año de crisis económica y política - Los eventos de 1957 y la caída de Rojas Pinilla.
Conexión Colombia
Durante años Eduardo Sáenz Rovner ha estudiado como pocos el fenómeno del narcotráfico a escala global. En este nuevo libro presenta los orígenes tempranos del tráfico de drogas en Colombia desde los años treinta y su vertiginoso crecimiento desde los años sesenta y setenta. A través de documentos desclasificados de una veintena de archivos que incluyen los Archivos Nacionales y los Archivos Presidenciales de Estados Unidos, así como prolija documentación del Archivo General de la Nación y el Archivo de la Presidencia de la República en Bogotá, Sáenz Rovner pasa revista no sólo a dichos antecedentes históricos sino a cómo el narcotráfico ha marcado la pauta en las relaciones bilaterales de los dos países desde la década de los años 70. Este libro, de obligatoria lectura para conocedores y lectores comunes y corrientes, muestra que Colombia y los colombianos no han sido víctimas pasivas del negocio del narcotráfico; todo lo contrario, la república sudamericana e innumerables colombianos han sido actores centrales en esta lucrativa economía del crimen.
Histories of Perplexity
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state fo...
Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey
Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over the last several decades, is strongly tied to the country's long history of opium production and heroin trafficking. As an industry at the centre of the Ottoman Empire's long transition into the modern Turkish Republic, as important as the silk road had been in earlier centuries, the modern rise of the opium and heroin trade helped to solidify and complicate long-standing relationships between s...
The Making of Modern Colombia
"I simply cannot think of an example of recent scholarship on Latin America that I found as thoroughly rewarding and enjoyable as this study."—Charles Bergquist, University of Washington
