The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon Vendedor_JuanRibot

The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon Vendedor_JuanRibot"Fascinating A richly detailed portrait." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and courted movie stars such as Joan Fontaine and Bette Davis. Only when he declined Che Guevara's personal offer to become Minister of Sugar in the Communist regime did Lobo's

But Hector's pristine voice

readers will discover the real story behind the superstar: the ambition

ironía y una prosa tan brillante como incómoda

se lastima de gravedad en un accidente de auto

pero también una invitación al lector para prepararse y tomar desiciones para salvar vidas y proteger propiedad

and raised in Manhattan

el miedo gobernante

Era un ser terrible e indescriptiblemente mayor que cualquier tren subterráneo

—Pilar Castro

Paco Cabezas

El destierro

or the enduring fight for Puerto Rican sovereignty