Imagine Audio: Big Sugar

Introducing: Big Sugar

Join host Celeste Headlee for a deep dive into the inner workings of the multi-billion dollar sugar industry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Big Sugar Episode 1: Welcome to Blood, Sweat and Tears

Meet Victor and Selvin, who initially feel lucky to travel from Jamaica to Florida to cut sugarcane. The experiences of cane cutters like them lead two ambitious journalists to try and uncover the devastating truth about the labor supporting the American sugar industry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Big Sugar Episode 2: The Grass is Always Greener

Tensions between workers and a sugarcane farm erupt into violence. A ragtag group of lawyers seek justice for thousands of sugarcane cutters who have allegedly been underpaid for their grueling labor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Big Sugar Episode 3: The Case That Consumed Them

The lawyers gather evidence as they prepare to take on the biggest players in the sugar industry. Tens of millions of dollars are at stake, but who are they really up against?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Big Sugar Episode 4: Without Sugar There is No Country

We travel to 1950’s Cuba to meet the Fanjul family, sugar barons whose experiences with sugar, Castro and the Tropicana nightclub shine a light on where this story really begins.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.