Comparison Of The Cuban Government And The Bacardi Family

The rum war is an interesting topic about two families that fled Cuba when Fidel Castro took over. These two families both were in the alcohol business, but the Cuban government took over their businesses. Currently the Cuban government and the Bacardi family are fighting over the rights to sell the Havana Club rum. The Arechabala family founded a distillery in Cardenas, Cuba in 1878. The company was named Arechabala S.A. In 1934 the company created Havana Club which is a brand of rum created in Cuba. And now one of the best-selling rum brands in the world. The government of Cuba took over the company in 1960. This was when the revolution in Cuba took place and the dictator Fidel Castro came to power. This caused the Arechabala family to leave Cuba for Spain and United States of America. The …show more content…
The main countries were the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The company was considered a national jewel by the Cuban government. None of Cuba’s Havana Club rum ever made it legally into the United
States. The reason for this is because in 1962, the United States imposed an embargo on Cuban imports in response to the Cuban government taking over private businesses. Since the Arechabala family stopped producing rum the U.S. trademark registration for Havana Club lapsed in 1973. The Cuban government took advantage of this and registered the mark in the U.S. in 1976. The Bacardi family also moved from Cuba when Fidel Castro took over. They moved their operations of making alcohol to Puerto Rico and the Bahamas. By the 1990s, Bacardi had become the world’s