It's Sugar Time: The Gift that Saved Us from Castro - Couverture souple

Gillen, Mr. Neal P.

 
9781654145033: It's Sugar Time: The Gift that Saved Us from Castro
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1654145033 ISBN 13 : 9781654145033
Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

A Payroll Robbery Gone WrongCuba satisfied America’s insatiable sweet tooth by supplying a third of its demand for sugar.When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, he seized U.S. corporate property. President Dwight Eisenhower retaliated by imposing a sugar trade embargo, and the Cuban economy quickly collapsed.Tens of thousands of Cubans, stripped of their property and dignity, fled to America. Many took desperate measures to escape, including two brothers who were officers on ship carrying sugar to New York. Buying time, the brothers act to finance their escape from Castro’s regime by selling U.S. consumer goods in Havana's burgeoning black market. When the embargo threatens their access to U.S. ports, they decide to rob a New York sugar refinery payroll to feather their nest egg. But, their bold plan is stymied when they learn that others have the same idea. This fictional reconstruction of an actual payroll robbery in a New York City subway station finds the payroll messenger naked and bound by duct tape to a men’s room toilet. But the surprising aftermath of this caper leaves the reader to wonder who ended up with the money. Gillen’s story weaves together historic figures with gutsy Cubans and gritty New York characters.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1654145033
ISBN 13 
9781654145033
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
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