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How A Poor Cuban Boy Created Bacardi 0 (0)

Bacardi history starts with one impossible gamble — a penniless immigrant who arrived in Cuba with nothing and ended up building the world’s most awarded rum empire. Before Facundo Bacardi became a legend, he was a broke young man working in a dusty Santiago shop, watching two of his children die in a cholera epidemic, losing everything to bankruptcy, and still refusing to quit. Discover how a secret yeast strain, a chance observation by his wife, and a partnership with a French-Cuban chemist turned a crumbling tin-roofed distillery into a global dynasty — and why the mysterious bat logo chosen [See More…]