ABSTRACT
Havana has always maintained lucrative vice and smuggling trades, even during the colonial era (Robert, 1953; López Levia, 1930; Schwartz, 1989; Suchlicki, 1997). The development of international tourism in the 1920s greatly expanded Cuba’s vice markets, and foreign tourists eagerly partook of all of Havana’s forbidden pleasures: prostitution, pornography, alcohol, tobacco and narcotic drugs. The seamier side of the city was described quite colorfully by one guidebook writer from the 1920s,
