August
10
Ep. 0144: Rise of the Cane Kingdom, Part 2
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)
