Felix Sabates

Feliciano Sergio Flix Sabates, Jr. is a Cubanborn entrepreneur and philanthropist living in the United States.

Felix Sabates was born in Camagey, Cuba, living there until the age of 15. Sabates is the oldest of seven children three boys and four girls of Dr. Feliciano Sabates and Maria Tavio. Sabates grandfather grew sugar until a fire destroyed the business in the 1930s. Sabates family then founded a jewelry store in 1936. The family would later found several successful business including import and export, jewelry, optical stores, insurance sales, sugar, cattle, service stations and pharmacies, many of which bore the family name. Sabates attended military school as a teenager, first in Havana, and later in Camagey. According to Sabates, he was a bunkmate with one of the sons of Fidel Castro.

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