Hernando Calvo Ospina is a Colombian investigative journalist who specialised in the anti-Castro movement. He is the author of Bacardi: The Hidden War (Pluto, 2002) and co-author of The Cuban Exile Movement: Dissidents or Mercenaries? (Ocean Press, 2000). He lives in France.

• Foreword by James PetrasBy Way Of Introduction1. The Bacardi-Bouteiller company2. Expansion and prelude to departure3. Bacardi leaves before the Revolution4. The CIA, the businessman and the terrorists5. From violence to the lobby6. Reagan breeds a monster7. CANF and The Shareholders8. Two wars and their accomplices9. The Torricelli-Graham Act10. The Absurd. The Helms-Burton Act11. ‘The Bacardi Claims Act’12. Market ‘wars’13. More than a rum war’14. Cuba’s transition and ‘reconstruction’PostscriptAppendix 1: DiagramsAppendix 2: Photos And Documents.Appendix 3: Photos And Documents.About The Cuba Solidarity CampaignNotesIndex

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

Hernando Calvo Ospina is a Colombian investigative journalist who specialised in the anti-Castro movement. He is the author of Bacardi: The Hidden War (Pluto, 2002) and co-author of The Cuban Exile Movement: Dissidents or Mercenaries? (Ocean Press, 2000). He lives in France.

• Foreword by James PetrasBy Way Of Introduction1. The Bacardi-Bouteiller company2. Expansion and prelude to departure3. Bacardi leaves before the Revolution4. The CIA, the businessman and the terrorists5. From violence to the lobby6. Reagan breeds a monster7. CANF and The Shareholders8. Two wars and their accomplices9. The Torricelli-Graham Act10. The Absurd. The Helms-Burton Act11. ‘The Bacardi Claims Act’12. Market ‘wars’13. More than a rum war’14. Cuba’s transition and ‘reconstruction’PostscriptAppendix 1: DiagramsAppendix 2: Photos And Documents.Appendix 3: Photos And Documents.About The Cuba Solidarity CampaignNotesIndex

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

Hernando Calvo Ospina is a Colombian investigative journalist who specialised in the anti-Castro movement. He is the author of Bacardi: The Hidden War (Pluto, 2002) and co-author of The Cuban Exile Movement: Dissidents or Mercenaries? (Ocean Press, 2000). He lives in France.

• Foreword by James PetrasBy Way Of Introduction1. The Bacardi-Bouteiller company2. Expansion and prelude to departure3. Bacardi leaves before the Revolution4. The CIA, the businessman and the terrorists5. From violence to the lobby6. Reagan breeds a monster7. CANF and The Shareholders8. Two wars and their accomplices9. The Torricelli-Graham Act10. The Absurd. The Helms-Burton Act11. ‘The Bacardi Claims Act’12. Market ‘wars’13. More than a rum war’14. Cuba’s transition and ‘reconstruction’PostscriptAppendix 1: DiagramsAppendix 2: Photos And Documents.Appendix 3: Photos And Documents.About The Cuba Solidarity CampaignNotesIndex

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