Lois Brandt's Reviews > Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba & Then Lost it to the Revolution

I read this before travelling to Cuba and was intrigued by the history of the mob, the US Government, and the Cuban government.

Lots of detail here, but the devil, in this case, really is in the detail. Totally appalled at our government's collusion with the mob. Many US senators and American capitalists lost money when the Cuban revolution occurred. With the embargo we are still exacting revenge.

Just enough information about Castro to push one to read further. He, obviously, had good intentions, but power does corrupt. What Castro missed was that Democracy, as messy as it can be, is the only form of government that can work.

As far as economic goes, communism doesn't work. On the other hand, this book shows what horrors happen with unregulated capitalism. I guess what is left is socialism, regulated by a democracy with strong protections for civil liberties.

Cuba is a lovely country, suffering because of an immoral embargo perpetuated by myopic US politics.

Read this book. Visit Cuba.