While much of the major investments of foreign corporations led to the development of sugar mills, mining operations, cattle ranches and transportation networks in the Cuban countryside, the epi-center of the Anglo-American colony, generally home to more than half the Anglo-American residents on the island, emerged in Havana. These oral histories unearth the stories of Anglo-American executives who secured assignments in the Cuban capital. Their narratives chronicle not only the formation of lucrative business partnerships, but also the emergence of significant social relationships between Anglo-American businessmen, Cuban professionals and Cuban politicians. These relationships proved pivotal to an early embrace of the revolution by most Anglo-Americans in Cuba, and, shortly thereafter, to the joint action initiated by many Anglo-Americans and their Cuban allies to undermine the new government.
