José Maria Bosch Lamarque (Pepín Bosh) was a Cuban exile and the chief executive and president of Bacardi for 32 years.

[4] Bosch's father was a Spanish banker and owner of Cuban sugar mills, who made a fortune on the island.

[6] As a result of this transfer, which occurred between 1955 and 1957, Castro was unable to obtain any of Bacardi's recipes or trademarks when he nationalized the company's assets.

[6] In 1964, Bosch informed the attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), that he was asked frequently to donate to anti-Castro activities, including several attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro and other Cuban government leaders.

Bosch also confirmed to his Cuban exile friends that his contacts at the Central Intelligence Agency were not interested in these anti-Castro plots.

[9] However, according to the Colombian journalist Hernando Calvo Ospina, Bosch not only wanted Castro murdered, but sponsored many of the anti-Castro groups in their extremist activities.

[10] Calvo Ospina also suggested that Bosch and the Bacardi company not only bankrolled these organizations, but also planned the deliberate bombing of Cuban oil refineries and plunging the island into a nationwide blackout.