Emilio Bacardi, eldest son of Don Facundo, was repeatedly imprisoned in a Spanish prison for(legitimate)
suspicions of running a rebel financing and support network during the Cuban War of Independence.
But Cuba was politically unstable, most of Spain's other American colonies had become independent following a series of wars in the early nineteenth century, and Cubans of all backgrounds were itching for freedom including a certain Emilio Bacardi,
son of Don Facundo.