♦ This drink is a political statement as well as a cocktail. It translates to Free Cuba
♦ a status that the country enjoyed in 1898 at the end of the Spanish-American War.
1. Cuban American relations were friendly around the turn of the century, when a U.S.
2. Army lieutenant in Havana mixed some light native rum with a new-fangled American soft drink called Coca-Cola and braced the libation with a lime.
