Bacardi, which had made rum in Cuba under its own name and that of Havana Club, left the island in 1960 after Fidel Castro came to power. Bacardi makes rum in Puerto Rico and markets it in the ...
The story began in 1829 when founder Don Facundo Bacardi y Maso came to Cuba from Catalonia as a 14-year-old and was apprenticed to an English wine merchant. Put off by harsh brown rum ...