Norberto Azqueta Sr.

Norberto Azqueta Sr. (born 1930) is a Cuban-born American businessman, with interests in sugar, banking, paper and other industries.

Norberto Azqueta Sr.
Born
Norberto Azqueta

1930 (age 92–93)
Cuba
NationalityAmerican
Occupationbusinessman
ParentJésus Azqueta
RelativesAlfonso Fanjul Sr. (father-in-law)
Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul Jr. (brother-in-law)
José "Pepe" Fanjul (brother-in-law)

Early life

Norberto Azqueta is 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 is one of the founders of the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida.[4][5]

Personal life

Azqueta is 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]

References
  1. Sam Verdeja; Guillermo Martinez (20 January 2012). Cubans, an Epic Journey: The Struggle of Exiles for Truth and Freedom. Reedy Press LLC. pp. 280–. ISBN 978-1-935806-20-2. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  2. Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez (2010). International Migration in Cuba: Accumulation, Imperial Designs, and Transnational Social Fields. Penn State Press. pp. 252–. ISBN 978-0-271-03538-3. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  3. "Palm Beach, FL Realtor Norberto Azqueta Jr. - Sotheby's International Realty, Inc". www.sothebyshomes.com. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  4. "GulfstreamPolo.com". www.gulfstreampolo.com. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  5. Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2011, p. 98
  6. Jones Poit, Katrina (October 17, 1980). "Sugar Magnate Alfonso Fanjul Dead At 71". The Palm Beach Post. p. 1. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  7. "Robin van Orman and Norberto Azqueta". The New York Times. 2 September 2001. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  8. "Rachel C. Eggen, Jesus Azqueta Jr". palmbeachdailynews.com. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
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