From The Bahamas to St Thomas, the Caribbean’s Most Famous Cocktails

Rum and Coke, or Cuba Libre, Cuba

There’s no rum drink as ubiquitous as the rum and Coke, served with or without a lime wedge (and sometimes as a shot and chaser combo) at bars throughout the Caribbean. It’s other nickname, the Cuba Libre, hints at the drink’s origins: American soldiers in Cuba during the Spanish Civil War were said to have first mixed the local rum with the Coca-Cola imported from the U.S. (“Cuba Libre” was the slogan of the Cuban independence movement of the time).