Friday 19th of April 2024

sugar daddy .....

sugar daddy .....

Alfonso 'Alfy' Fanjul Jr is 'Big Sugar', the patriarch of the Cuban family which dominates the huge sugar industry of Florida, and he is not the kind of man who needs a business degree to know how to sweeten a deal.  

His is the fifth generation of a family which owned the lion's share of the Cuban sugar industry, slave plantations and all, before Fidel Castro's revolution seized their land, smoke-stack refineries and Havana palaces in 1959.

While Castro went broke, the Fanjuls sailed to Florida with cash, jewels and a few paintings, and went back to business. 

Americans: Meet Florida’s Sugar Daddy