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Nicaragua's First Billionaire Is Country's Sugar King
2014-11-06 13:05:34| Sugar Industry News
When the guerrilla army of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, led by Daniel Ortega, took over Nicaragua in 1979, one of its first acts was to seize the assets of the country's business oligarchs. One target was the Pellas family, prominent since Francisco Alfredo Pellas, who arrived in Nicaragua from Italy in 1875, got rich by producing sugar and operating steamships on Lake Nicaragua. The FSLN seized the family's real estate and its bank, Banco America, and later took over its sugar mill, the biggest business in the country, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its December issue.
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