The Bacardi family: a new rum war is just beginning

The Bacardi family will be among the many Cuban exiles welcoming the prospect of Castro's imminent demise. But even as their battles with the Cuban leader come to an end, a new rum war is beginning.

With the prospect of a "Cuba libre" tantalisingly close, times have rarely been better for the two million Cuban exiles who have spent the past half century praying for regime change. The most famous and wealthiest by a long way are the 600-strong Bacardi clan a family as notorious for its feuding as for its rum. And they are marking the occasion in bellicose style, says Louisa Gault in The Sunday Telegraph. "The sun may be setting on Fidel Castro's reign, but a rum war that has its origins in the 1959 revolution is just beginning."

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Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

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