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Since the Cuban Revolution 1959, led by Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Bacardi has backed illegal and violent attempts to undermine it, funding the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), a virulently anti-Castro right-wing exile organisation based in Miami, that organises systematic acts of terrorism against Cuba.
These include the destruction of ships; the blowing up of a Cuban civilian airliner in 1976, killing all of Cuba's Olympic fencing team (CANF member Orlando Bosch was subsequently convicted for this); assassinations; biological and guerrilla warfare; the firebombing of factories and crops.
The death toll from these activities is at least 3,400 Cuban citizens. Bacardi's lawyers also helped draft the US Helms-Burton Act, which extends the United States' blockade of Cuba to third countries, in breach of international trade law and outlawed by over 150 UN countries, including Ireland.
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