| Norberto Azqueta Sr. | |
| Birth Name: | Norberto Azqueta |
| Birth Date: | 20 June 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Havana, Cuba |
| Death Place: | Weston, Florida, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | businessman |
| Parents: | Jésus Azqueta |
| Relations: | Alfonso Fanjul Sr. (father-in-law) Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul Jr. (brother-in-law) José "Pepe" Fanjul (brother-in-law) |
Norberto Azqueta Sr. (June 20, 1930 – November 11, 2020) was a Cuban-born American businessman, with interests in sugar, banking, paper and other industries.
Norberto 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]
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]
Azqueta 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]