Tag: Bacardi
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As war in Ukraine rages, Bacardi finds a windfall selling booze to Russians. Ukraine adds Bacardi to list of “war sponsors”
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 liquor giant Bacardi Ltd., whose U.S. operations are based in Coral Gables, publicly pledged its support for Ukraine and announced that it had “paused exports to Russia and froze advertising” there. That was then -
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Jeb Bush’s missing emails detail his lobbying support for Bacardi as contributions flowed
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The mass release of emails covering presidential aspirant Jeb Bush’s years as governor omitted at least a dozen emails documenting behind-the-scenes lobbying support he gave to liquor giant Bacardi. -
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A modern day ‘Harvest of Shame’: Today’s blue collar temp laborers face abuses in Florida, elsewhere
By Michael Grabell
ProPublica
CRANBURY, N.J. – Half a century ago, the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow came to this pancake-flat town in central New Jersey to document the plight of migrant farmworkers. But today, an old way of labor persists here. Temporary workers who migrate here daily on buses face face similar conditions.
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