Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Spanish wine merchant, was born in
Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, in 1814, and emigrated to Cuba in 1830.
Portuondo and other Bacardí family members initially supported the Cuban revolutionaries,
including Fidel Castro and the broader M-26-7 movement: Bosch personally donated tens of thousands of dollars to the movement, and acted as an intermediary between the revolutionaries and the CIA to assuage the latter's concerns.