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Bacardi: from C-4 to flamethrowers
IT is pretty ironic that the
Bacardi company, which for 50 years has financed the
Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) and the
C-4 of Posada Carriles, would be victims of a
consumer demand, victims of a bottle of the
controversial rum converted into a flamethrower.
Three women in South Florida
suffered burns in 2002, when a client of the adult
Secrets club converted a bottle of Bacardi into a
flamethrower during a drinks promotion.
Drunk, the client set fire to a
menu in order to light the rum that he was drinking
in a cup. The flames spread to a bottle of
75.5-proof Bacardi rum, which then exploded.
Antoinette Hernández, Daniella
Alleyne and Agata Macierzynska declared in their
lawsuit that Bacardi Rum is dangerous due to its
potent, inflammable vapors, and that the security
cap intended to prevent that is easy to remove.
The relations between Bacardi and CANF, sponsor of
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, are well documented.
When Posada, from El Salvador, carried out his bomb
terror campaign in Havana in 1997, Clara María del
Valle, owner of Bacardi and vice president of CANF,
even published a letter in support of supporting the
acts. (Jean-Guy Allard)
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