Join CJ as he discusses:

• An overview of American sugar politics since 1959.
• A detailed look at the Fanjul family, who escaped Castro’s revolution, came to Florida, and (with a LOT of political entrepreneurship) built a sugar empire that eventually overtook even the U.S. Sugar Corporation
• Big Sugar’s labor problems from the ’60s through the ’90s
• Big Sugar & South Florida’s environment
• The sugar industry’s impact on health & science
• Big Sugar in recent years

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Internal Links

• DHP Ep. 0143: Rise of the Cane Kingdom, Part 1
• DHP Ep. 0141: Draining the Swamp: The War on the Everglades
• DHP Ep. 0110: Twenty-one Key Concepts and Theories, Part 2
• DHP Ep. 0108: “Edge Men” of the Power Elite

External Links

• “Sweet Deal: Why are these men smiling? The Answer is in Your Sugar Bowl” (Time, 1998)
• “In the Kingdom of Big Sugar” (Vanity Fair, 2001)
• “America’s Sugar Daddies” (New York Times, 2003)
• “Marco Rubio’s Billion-Dollar Sugar Addiction” (National Review, 2015)
• “Jeb Bush’s Fight Over the Everglades” (The New Yorker, 2016)
• “Big Sugar’s Fanjul Family Hosting Miami Fundraisers for Both Clinton and Trump This Year” (Miami New times, 2016)
• “How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat” (New York Times, 2016)
• “Big Sugar’s Secret Ally? Nutritionists” (New York Times, 2017)
• Big Sugar: Sweet, White & Deadly (a CBC documentary)
• Wikipedia article on the economics of “Dirty, Dangerous, and demeaning/dangerous” jobs (3Ds)