A mediados de los ochenta, el submundo criminal de los Estados Unidos se convirtio en un poliglota etnico. Una de las organizaciones ilicitas mas poderosas era ni mas ni menos que la mafia cubana. Conocida en ambos lados de la ley como La corporacion , el poder de la mafia cubana venia de una cultura criminal enraizada en la comunidad de exiliados del sur de la Florida -aquellos que fueron expulsados de la isla por la revolucion de Castro y que planeaban derrocar al dictador marxista y recuperar el pais.

Historia epica de gansteres, drogas, violencia, sexo y asesinatos callejeros, La corporacion (The Corporation) revela como una generacion entera de exiliados politicos, refugiados, estafadores, policias corruptos, sicarios, y sus esposas y novias se vio enredada en una saga americana de desesperacion y construccion de imperios. T. J. English interconecta las voces de infiltrados, que por primera vez hablan abiertamente, con una mina de material investigativo que ha reunido durante decadas para contar la historia de esta exitosa empresa criminal, y lo contrasta con el trasfondo de la revolucion, el exilio y la etnicidad, haciendo de esta una de las grandes historias americanas de gansteres que han sido ignoradas -hasta hoy.

Basandose en informes detallados y en una impresionante cantidad de evidencia que guian sus exitosos trabajos, English ofrece una mirada cautivadora y exhaustiva a esta poderosa y sordida organizacion criminal y su influencia en los Estados Unidos.

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A mob saga that has it all-brotherhood and betrayal,
swaggering power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems
utterly unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read. - Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of
The Force

A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the
US from America’s top chronicler of organized crime and New York Times bestselling author of
Havana Nocturne.

By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become
an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none
other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as the
Corporation, the Cuban mob’s power stemmed from a criminal culture
embedded in south Florida’s exile community-those who had been chased from
the island by Castro’s revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist
dictator and reclaim their nation.

An epic story of gangsters, drugs, violence, sex, and murder rooted in the
streets, The Corporation reveals
how an entire generation of political exiles, refugees, racketeers, corrupt
cops, hitmen, and their wives and girlfriends became caught up in an American
saga of desperation and empire building. T. J. English interweaves the voices
of insiders speaking openly for the first time with a trove of investigative
material he has gathered over many decades to tell the story of this
successful criminal enterprise, setting it against the larger backdrop of
revolution, exile, and ethnicity that makes it one of the great American
gangster stories that has been overlooked-until now.

Drawing on the detailed reporting and impressive volume of evidence that
drive his bestselling works, English offers a riveting, in-depth look at this
powerful and sordid crime organization and its hold in the US.