Coca-Cola's history in Cuba is a fascinating chapter in the company's international expansion. Before Cuban revolutionaries took power in 1959, the brand had a strong presence on the island, ...

In 1949 an FBI informant named John J. Huber testified during the McCarthy hearings about the alleged political entanglements ...

That leaves Cuba and North Korea as the only Coke-free holdouts. (Although, as Riptide readers fairly point out, plenty of Coke still unofficially sneaks into Cuba through Mexico and other ...

After almost 60 years, Coca-Cola is on sale again in Burma. ... They are Cuba and North Korea, which are both under long-term US trade embargoes (Cuba since 1962 and North Korea since 1950).

What we now, prosaically, call a rum and Coke began life as the Cuba Libre, which dates to Havana around 1900, after the Spanish-American War ("Free Cuba" being the battle cry during that conflict ...

Rum & Coke likely first paired up around the time of the 1898 Spanish American War, when Coca-Cola followed American troops into Cuba. But it was during World War II that the rum & Coke became ...

Coca-Cola Co. sells its beverages in all but two countries -- North Korea and Cuba. The list might soon shrink to one. President Barack Obama moved today to end the isolation of Cuba, proposing to ...

Coca-Cola Classic. You don’t think of Coke as particularly acidic because of the sugar and salt, but it’s there: the pH of Coke is 2.37. Lemon juice, for comparison, has a pH of 2.25.

A Cuba Libre is a rum and Coke with lime. Only the rum and Coke lacks a certain something—besides the lime. A rum and Coke is the order that you, 21 years and one hour old, ...

Coca-Cola's history in Cuba is a fascinating chapter in the company's international expansion. Before Cuban revolutionaries took power in 1959, the brand had a strong presence on the island, ...