The act was aimed primarily at Havana Club brand in the US, which was created by the José Arechebala company which was confiscated without compensation in the Cuban revolution.

The Havana Club trademark had been registered by the Cuban government in the United States without permission of the rightful owners.

The main brand of rum in Cuba is called Havana Club, a formerly private company nationalized by the government.

Havana Club was not a Bacardi brand, though Bacardi later bought the brand from the original owners, the Arechabala family, who had it seized from them by the Revolutionary Government without compensation.

The Cuban government in partnership with French company Pernod Ricard, sells its Havana Club internationally, except for the United States and its territories.

Bacardi created Havana Club rum based on the original recipe from the Arechebala ’ s, and the product is crafted in Puerto Rico and currently sold in Florida.

Facing increased competition in the rum market from the now international brand Havana Club, the company concluded that it was important for sales to associate its rum with Cuba.

Bacardi continues to fight a war in the courts attempting to legalize their own Havana Club trademark outside of the United States.

Other associated brands include the US version of Havana Club, Drambuie Scotch whisky liqueur, DiSaronno Amaretto, Eristoff vodka, B & B and Bénédictine liqueurs.

According to Havana Club:

Professional dancers at the Tropicana Club, Havana, Cuba, in 2008

Lansky set about reforming the Montmartre Club, which soon became the " in " place in Havana.

The next year, Ry Cooder produced the Grammy winning Buena Vista Social Club, featuring González, Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Orlando " Cachaíto " López, Omara Portuondo, and Eliades Ochoa among other veteran Cuban musicians, most of whom had careers and foundations that went back to the famous 1950s Havana scene.

The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s.

The recording, named Buena Vista Social Club after the Havana institution, became an international success, and the ensemble was encouraged to perform with a full line-up in Amsterdam in 1998.

The Buena Vista Social Club was a members-only club located in the populous Marianao neighborhood, in Cuba's capital Havana.

Sociedades de Negros ( Black Societies ) existed throughout Cuba, and Havana boasted a number of closely linked organizations including the Marianao Social Club, Union Fraternal, Club Atenas — whose members included doctors and engineers — and the Buena Vista Social Club itself.

During her speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C. in November 2011, she proposed " three essential solutions to stop the current world systemic crisis and turn the world towards a greater justice and greater prosperity ": reintroduction of a " polymetallic standard " in the International monetary systems as a world standard of reference and exchanges in order to establish a " free monetary system " and struggle against speculation ; the ratification of the modernized Havana Charter by the 1948 signatory nations and incoming emerging countries, in order to favour a " reasonable protectionism that encourages cooperation in trade among nations through the end of ' unbridled free trade '"; application of the 1933 Glass – Steagall Act, which legally separated investment banking and commercial banking, to “ the banking system of each country ”.

* 1993 – Pernod Ricard worked with Cuban companies to create Havana Club International.

* Tropicana Club, a nightclub in Havana, Cuba and New York City

Chef Garcia not only created the culinary programs but also oversees the kitchens at a number of his properties throughout New York City including Calle Ocho, the Copacabana Supper Club, the VIP food service at the Copacabana Nightclub, Barrio, Havana Café, Havana Room, Open Book Café at the Brooklyn Public Library, Cabana Bar and Rooftop 760.

The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.

The Bacardi Building in Old Havana is regarded as one of the finest art deco buildings in Latin America.

Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is south of Havana, Cuba, and northwest of Kingston, Jamaica, and are between Cuba and Central America.

One such reservation was Guanabacoa, which is today a suburb of Havana.

While the rail infrastructure dates from colonial and early republican times, passenger service along the principal Havana to Santiago corridor is increasingly reliable and popular with tourists who can purchase tickets in Cuban convertible pesos.

As with most public transport in Cuba, the vehicles used are second hand, and the flagship Tren Francés (" French train ") between Havana and Santiago de Cuba is operated by coaches originally used in Europe between Paris and Amsterdam on the ex-TEE express.

In Havana urban transportation is provided by a colourful selection of buses imported from the Soviet Union or Canada.

Like other countries in Oceania, Solomon Islands is a beneficiary of Cuban medical aid ; bilateral relations between Havana and Honiara must be viewed within the scope of Cuba's regional policy in Oceania.

Like other countries in Oceania, Tuvalu is a beneficiary of Cuban medical aid ; bilateral relations between Funafuti and Havana must be viewed within the scope of Cuba's regional policy in Oceania.

A fundamental rhythmic figure heard in Gottschalk's compositions such as " Souvenirs From Havana " ( 1859 ), many different slave musics of the Caribbean, as well as the bamboula, and other Afro-Caribbean folk dances performed in New Orleans Congo Square, is the three-stroke pattern known in Cuban music as tresillo.

The largest rally is held in Havana in the Plaza de la Revolución, and traditionally the Cuban president addresses the gathering.

* Many hotels in Havana also add Angostura bitters to cut the sweetness of the Mojito ; while icing sugar is often muddled with the mint leaves rather than cane sugar, and many establishments simply use sugar syrup to control sweetness.

As of this date, Nijmegen is still known as Havana on the Waal among some Right-wingers.

An early indication of the central role that the DGI would play in the Cuban-Nicaraguan relationship is a meeting in Havana on July 27, 1979, at which diplomatic ties between the two countries were re-established after more than 25 years.

* The Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la Habana, the oldest university in Cuba, is founded in Havana.

This bay is about 30 kilometers south of Jagüey Grande, 70 kilometers west of the city of Cienfuegos, and 150 kilometers southeast from the capital city Havana.

Legend has it that Charles III of Spain, while reviewing in Madrid the Spanish defense expenditures for Havana and Cartagena de Indias, looked through his spyglass and remarked, " This is outrageous!

Cartagena de Indias is rarely touched by the hurricanes that decimate other Caribbean capitals like Havana, Santo Domingo, Kingston or San Juan.

Mérida is serviced by Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport with daily non-stop services to major cities in Mexico ( D. F, Monterrey, Villahermosa, Cancún, Guadalajara, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Toluca ) and international ( Miami, Houston, La Havana ) and usually receiving charter flight services to and from Europe and Canada.

Across from Havana, the Illinois is joined by the Spoon River, and across from Browning, it is joined by the Sangamon River.

Gadsden county is home to two high schools-West Gadsden High School ( merged from the former Chattahoochee High and Greensboro High ) located on the western outskirts of Quincy near Greensboro, and East Gadsden High School ( merged from the former James A. Shanks High and Havana Northside High ) located on Hwy 90 East of Quincy.