Sugar Baron: Manuel Rionda and the Fortunes of Pre-Castro Cuba

The story of a tycoon in the sugar industry and an in-depth view of Cuba's economy before the Revolution

Sugar Baron is the story of Manuel Rionda (1854-1943), who immigrated from Spain to Cuba as a boy of 16 to become a dominant operator in the international sugar trade and to stand at the crossroads of U.S.-Cuban economic relations. Through an examination of Rionda's career as founder of the Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation and of New York's major sugar brokerag...