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Book Synopsis
How multinational companies act for political as well as economic interests

Trade Review
'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

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

Bacardi The Hidden War

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A Paperback / softback by Hernando Calvo Ospina

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    Publisher: Pluto Press
    Publication Date: 20/07/2002
    ISBN13: 9780745318738, 978-0745318738
    ISBN10: 0745318738

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    How multinational companies act for political as well as economic interests

    Trade Review
    '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

    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

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