Bacardi had also begun selling its own version of Havana Club in the American market.

ECONOMIST: A rum tale of trademarks and slogans

The Havana Club trademark had belonged to a Cuban family whose business was expropriated in 1960.

ECONOMIST: Trademarks

Through a joint venture with a Cuban state company, it makes a rum called Havana Club.

ECONOMIST: Trademarks

Yet in 1996 Bacardi, the world's biggest rum maker, started selling its own Havana Club rum in America.

ECONOMIST: Trademarks

The event, at the Havana Club in St Helier will be hosted by BBC Introducing in Jersey presenter Ryan Morrison.

BBC: Acts to compete for Jersey Live festival slot

As I saw to the boat, my buddies hit the on-site liquor store and loaded the suite with Sands beer, Havana Club rum, and Cohiba cigars that seemed just as important as the spears and snorkels.

BBC: Lobster diving in the Abacos

The Grand Havana Room, a cigar club that was once the Top of the Sixes restaurant, offered spectacular, 360-degree views of the midtown-Manhattan skyline.

FORBES: Happy 20th Birthday, Cigar Aficionado

In 1948, Valdes harnessed the influences of American jazz, Cuban melodies and African rhythms when he became the principal pianist and arranger for the house orchestra of Havana's Tropicana night club, the crown jewel of Cuban nightlife.

NPR: Bebo Valdes' Long Musical Journey

She had recorded the series in Havana, interviewing musicians from the Buena Vista Social Club and Ry Cooder.

BBC: Kirsty MacColl