Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba.(Brief article)(Book review)

Facundo Bacardi, who founded the eponymous rum company in 1862, came to Cuba from Spain as a teen-ager. By the turn of the century, as Gjelten lucidly recounts, the distilling operation that Facundo had begun in a shed was among the brands most closely identified with Cuba, and the Bacardis became inextricably entangled with the nation's history. Facundo's eldest son, Emilio, fought to overthrow the Spanish, ...