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Mixing it up in HavanaMixing it up in Havana
Joe Bates
15-Mar-2006
Havana Club has fought long and hard in the past decade to defend its Cuban credentials. Joe Bates travelled to the brand's biennial cocktail competition in Havana to find out more about the company's plans to grow its international business
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The Latin jazz pumping out of the sound system echoes around the cavernous interior of Havana's former parliament building. Now a science museum, the city's imposing El Capitolio—a near-exact replica
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