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Bacardi [] is an enterprise with seat on the Bermudas, which drive a Rum as well as the different Rum mixing out of beverages under same name. Bacardi Rum is driven out today in 175 countries, this concerns the usually-sold liquor mark of the world. To Bacardi today the marks Martini, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Grey Goose Wodka, Dewar's Scotch whisky as well as the Tequilamarke Cazadores belong. The German address, Bacardi GmbH, has its seat in Hamburg. In Germany Bacardi is filled up in Buxtehude.
On 4 February 1862 the Destillerie Bacardi is created & approx. in Santiago de Cuba by the Don Facundo Bacardi (1814-1887), originating from Spain. In the year 1877 the company receives the first gold medal for quality on the world exhibition in Spain.
1910 are established the first racking plant abroad in Barcelona. Thus Bacardi becomes the first internationally working enterprise of Cuba. 1916 are added a racking plant into New York, 1934 a Destillerie into Mexico. 1934 are developed a work in Puerto Rico, in order to go around the drastic import duties into the USA. After the Cuban revolution in the year 1960 the family Bacardi emigriert into the USA, it succeeds to her to keep the international trademark laws as well as their original yeast cultures. Nevertheless the white Rum manufactured by the company Bacardi differs much from the Rum manufactured at that time by the same company on Cuba, which is produced today in the traditional form still on Cuba and in Nicaragua.
(see article Rum)
According to statement of the former head of the company and family member Manuel Cutillas the family Bacardi welcomed first the fight and victory the revolutionary against Fulgencio Batista. After its remunerationless expropriation on 14 October 1960 on Cuba the large family Bacardi emigrierte itself predominantly and engaged according to statements of Manuel Cutillas and other family members actively against the dominant Cuban regime. Some critics therefore accuse to the family the money made with the liquor company substantial to anticommunist influencing control to have used. Documents from the Kennedy era prove that Manuel "Pepin" Bosch, one of the family members active into the 1960er years in the management of Bacardi was actively in from Exilkubanern in Miami, Florida created government-in-exile active. From a secret document of the CIA from 15 June 1964 it is to follow that Pepin Bosch supported a plan for the murder of Fidel Castro. By Pepin Bosch one maintains, it has another with it did not use Exilkubaner, Orlando Bosch, with money helped. On 6 October 1970 a notice was undertaken on a civilian flight of the Cuban airline Cubana, with which 73 victims were to be deplored. But Orlando Bosch was condemned because of activities of terror against Cuba in Venezuela to 10 years detention. At the notice also Posada is to have been with involved.
A former person employed of a marketing enterprise active for Bacardi, Otto realm, became active for Bacardi later than lobbyist, for which he was to have taken 2 millions US$. It is to have promoted considerably the helmet Burton act inspired by the family Bacardi. The helmet Burton act, temporarily also as "Bacardi law" scoffed, is one 1996 of senator Jesse of helmet for the aggravation of the US commercial embargo against Cuba brought in law, which forbids sailing international shipping companies, which start Cuba, for long time the flow into US-American ports and Americans the journey to Cuba only over third countries (Canada, Mexico, Europe etc.) made possible. Today realm for George W. Bush is active as advisors in questions of Latin America.
Toward beginning of the 1980er years created another in business successful member of the government-in-exile, Jorge Canosa, against which in different countries corruption reproaches are to have been raised, with support of US president Ronald Reagan in Florida the Cuban American national Foundation with approximately 650 members. According to statement of the journalist Hernando Calvo Ospina under it alone 25 shareholders of the family Bacardi should be, among them Clara Maria del Valle, one at present in the management of Bacardi active member of the family. When it succeeded to the government of Fidel Castro to survive in particular by European Investititionen into the tourism the economic support which was missing after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc the mentioned Posada recruited an Italian named Salvatori, which committed a set of bomb attacks in hotel plants, which should sell the tourists of Cuba starting from April 1997. 13 humans were hurt, a person died. Salvatori was arrested and confessed the notices to have committed. While its explained Posada of the American lady journalist Anne Louise bar roof of the New York Time, which notices supported of the Cuban American national Foundation. The donation had before assumed a rebellion of dissatisfied of Cuban military behind the notices publicly. Slandering announcements of the donation against the New York Time ran later without result.
In France Bacardi offers for the past few years a mix beverage under the name "la bomba", which is applied actively with associations to bombs and explosions. It is however very questionable whether this is to really call to activities of terror. It is not probably more than one name for a
In Cuba far Destillerie producing in the old procedure Havana club markets its Rum under the label name , which is driven out world-wide outside of Cuba since 1993 by the French society Pernod Ricard. 1996 brought a subsidiary managed by Bacardi on of the Bahamas the Rum with a changed label in the USA under the label name to Havana club on the market, from which a law case developed around the label name Havana club in the USA before office for US for patents and trade marks. In run this law case asked the family Bacardi 2002 the brother of the today's US president, the governor von Florida Jeb Bush to intervene in favor of of Bacardi against Pernod Ricard with the US patent office which Jeb Bush undertook also promptly.
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