The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone

Author:John Paul Rathbone [Rathbone, John Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Autobiography
ISBN: 9781594202582
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2010-08-05T04:17:17+00:00

Within a decade, Lobo’s mighty works would also disappear. Fifty years after that, Castro’s socialist revolution would seem like an Ozymandian dream too.

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IMPERIAL AFFAIRS

Fortune is a woman and the more she does for me the more I demand from her.

—NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The cartoon says it all. With one hand, Lobo holds above his head a giant globe labeled “The World of Sugar.” He is lithe, almost naked in swimming trunks that are patterned with small dollar signs, and would look like an Atlas were it not for the smoking cigar that hangs from the corner of a rather sour-looking mouth. Conrad Massaguer—noted cartoonist and illustrator, founder of the glossy magazine Social, and brother-in-law of Jacobo Lobo’s widow—drew similarly jokey portraits of Cuba’s other sugarcrats. He had sketched Manuel Aspuru, a playboy hacendado and friend of Lobo’s, saluting from a paper sailboat in a stylish captain’s uniform. He also executed a Charles Addams–style rendering of Arturo Mañas, head of the Sugar Institute, who looks positively devilish as he ladles another spoonful into an American coffee cup while asking, “More sugar, Sir?” But the Lobo lampoon is the most outlandish of them all. It pokes fun at the virility of a man who drew his inspiration from Napoleon and held the world’s sugar market in the palm of his hand.

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