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Home News Rum and cigars at stake in family's bid to win compensation from Cuba

Rum and cigars at stake in family's bid to win compensation from Cuba

Sunday, September 13 2009

Richard Luscombe in Miami
The Guardian

They are the quintessential ingredients of a sultry Havana night: cocktails blended from premium rum and hand-rolled cigars so fine that Fidel Castro would smoke no other brand.

But now a court in Miami may hand two of Cuba's most prized assets – the trademarks for Havana Club rum and Cohiba cigars – to the family of a man executed on the island half a century ago.

Bobby Fuller, a former US marine who owned a sugar plantation in Cuba, was shot by firing squad in October 1960, less than 24 hours after his arrest and trial for alleged disloyalty to Castro's communist revolution.

Rum and cigars at stake in family's bid to win compensation from Cuba continues at guardian.co.uk...

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