Table of Contents

Foreword by James Petras
By Way Of Introduction
1. The Bacardi-Bouteiller company
2. Expansion and prelude to departure
3. Bacardi leaves before the Revolution
4. The CIA, the businessman and the terrorists
5. From violence to the lobby
6. Reagan breeds a monster
7. CANF and The Shareholders
8. Two wars and their accomplices
9. The Torricelli-Graham Act
10. The Absurd. The Helms-Burton Act
11. ‘The Bacardi Claims Act’
12. Market ‘wars’
13. More than a rum war’
14. Cuba’s transition and ‘reconstruction’
Postscript
Appendix 1: Diagrams
Appendix 2: Photos And Documents.
Appendix 3: Photos And Documents.
About The Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Notes
Index

About the Author

Hernando Calvo Ospina is a Colombian investigative journalist who specialises in the anti-Castro movement. He is the author of Peru: los senderos posibles, (Peru: the Possible Paths, 1994), Dissidents or Mercenaries? The Cuban Exile Movement (1999) and Salsa, esa irreverente alegria (Salsa, this Irreverent Joy, 1996). Barcardi: The Hidden War was first published in Spanish and has been translated into French, Dutch, German and Italian.

Reviews

'As an agitational tool in support of any campaigning against the sale of Barcardi rum, Bacardi, The Hidden War is indispensable'
*Red Pepper*

'This fascinating and readable account shows how multinational companies act for political as well as economic interests'
*CUBASI*

'This fascinating and valuable book throws much needed light on the base and ignoble motives of those, in government and business, who claim to be working to free Cuba from tyranny'
*New Internationalist*