#237 Julio Lobo (Cuba's Last Sugar Tycoon)
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Cuba has known many rich men since Christopher Columbus first introduced sugarcane to the island. Thomas Terry, the most successful sugar planter of Cuba's colonial years, left twenty five million dollars on his death. In eighteen eighty six. Not bad considering that then the richest man in the world, William Aster, Left just fifty million.
Yet Cuba does not have to look back more than a century to find extreme riches. In Havana today, to have cresus like wealth is referred to be as rich It's Julio Lobo. Julio Lobo was the richest man in Cuba before Castro's revolution did away
With such men. Lobo's life frames the sixty odd years of the pre-revolutionary Cuban Republic. He was born in eighteen ninety eight. the year that Cuba won independence after thirty years of fighting against Spain. And he left the country in nineteen sixty.
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