Rum and Revolution
NPR has an interview this morning with Tom Gjelten, the author of Bicardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause, which details the rum company’s history in Cuban politics and the role it played in the Cuban Revolution. The company was very supportive of the Revoultion at first, as its success was derived essentially from its cubanismo, if you will: In the 1950s, the family’s support for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution was a natural carryover from 100 years of involvement in Cuban nationalistic movements. Pepin Bosch, the chairman of the company at that time, Continue reading Rum and Revolution