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Norberto Azqueta Sr.
Norberto Azqueta Sr. (June 20, 1930 – November 11, 2020) was a Cuban-born American businessman, with interests in sugar, banking, paper and other industries. Early lifeNorberto Azqueta was the son of Jésus Azqueta, who owned a sugar mill in Venezuela through the family company Trucane Sugar.[1] His family is of Spanish descent.[2] Career
Azqueta moved to the U.S after the rise of the Castro regime in Cuba in 1960.[3] Azqueta was one of the founders of the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida.[4][5] Personal lifeAzqueta was married to Lian Fanjul Azqueta, the daughter of Cuban-born American sugar baron Alfonso Fanjul Sr.[6] In 2001, his eldest son, Norberto Azqueta Jr., born in Cuba,[3] who was then working for the Fanjul brothers' sugar-making conglomerate, Florida Crystals, married Robin van Orman, the great granddaughter of Burton K. Wheeler, a U.S. senator from 1923 to 1947.[7] Their son Jesse Azqueta Sr. married Winnie, and they have a son Jesus Azqueta Jr., who married Rachel C. Eggen in Palm Beach in 2012.[8] Norberto Azqueta Sr. died in Weston, Florida on November 11, 2020, at the age of 90.[9] References
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