Big Sugar Episode 5: The American Dream

07/18/23 • 43 min

Host Celeste Headlee goes on the hunt for the Fanjul brothers in Palm Beach, Florida and uncovers an even more devastating truth about the American sugar industry’s past. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the movie The Godfather play a part in our story.

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Big Sugar Episode 4: Without Sugar There is No Country

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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Big Sugar Episode 6: The Decision and the Drama

The case continues as the lawyers seek justice for the cane cutters. The jury reaches a decision.

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Transcript

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Check check. Okay, this is Peter Hayden in Cloudy South Florida. We are outside of Holiday and when you land in West Palm Beach, you see about what you'd expect from a large city in South Florida. Palm trees, fire bush, seagulls, and lots of people wearing shorts and flipflops, even in February. Lest Headley, I presume, welcome to cloudy South Florida. I've come here from my home in Maryland, and I'm meeting up with a local reporter, Peter Hayden