Big Sugar Episode 4: Without Sugar There is No Country

07/11/23 • 39 min

We travel to 1950’s Cuba to meet the Fanjul family, sugar barons whose experiences with sugar, Castro and the Tropicana nightclub shine a light on where this story really begins.

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We travel to 1950’s Cuba to meet the Fanjul family, sugar barons whose experiences with sugar, Castro and the Tropicana nightclub shine a light on where this story really begins.

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Transcript

Speaker 100:00:01.199

Nineteen fifties, Cuba, Havana. There's one place, one club where anyone who's anyone can be found. On a Saturday night, you always want to Tropic Canna, doesn't matter where you want. You wound up a Tropic Canna because it was world famous, and just to walk in and look at it was enough.

Speaker 100:00:25.000

It's more than a casino in cabaret. It's a destination nestled within a lush six acre estate. It was the wo