The writer and journalist John Paul Rathbone, currently the Financial Times’ Latin America editor, presents his latest novel The Sugar King of Havana: the Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s Last Tycoon, highly praised by The New York Times. It tells the story of Julio Lobo, considered the richest man in pre-Castro Cuba; educated, art collector and a magician of finance, Julio Lobo helped Che Guevara to bring down the Batista dictatorship. He will talk about the exciting life of this man with Mauricio Rodríguez, Colombian ambassador to the UK, as well as giving his view as a journalist about the current situation in Latin America.