Memoirs of a Rum-Runner: The Life of Clemente de la Cuadra

This is the true story of the travels and dealings of a Spaniard in the New World. Landing in Mexico as a boy in 1816, Clemente struggles to find his way. At heart an entrepreneur, or mafioso, he hustles through wars, gambles against revolutionaries, teetering from one side of the law to the other. Between Havana, Tampico and New Orleans, stops around the heartland and elsewhere, he amasses fortunes and shakes his fist at death. A statue of him in bronze still stands today in Utrera, Spain.