Sugar King

CITIZEN "CANE" VS. CHE GUEVARA

Known as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in pre-revolutionary Cuba, if not the world. 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. Ironically, he worked with the mafia while at the same time supporting Fidel Castro's revolution. But when he turned down Che Guevara's personal offer to become Minister of Sugar in the Castro-led Government, Lobo's decades-long reign came to a dramatic end. Based on John Rathbone's New York Times best-seller "The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Cuba's Last Tycoon," this project is a rare, gripping portrait of Cuba's transformation over the years. Like Lobo himself, the story also tackles perennial issues like the true meaning of "success," and the pernicious cost of wealth inequality.