Pour rum directly into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Fill with cola. Stir gently with a bar spoon. Serve with a straw.

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The Cuba Libre (IPA /'ku?a'li??e/ in Spanish, kju?b? li?b?e?/ in English, "Free Cuba") is a highball made of Cola, lime, and white rum. This highball is often referred to as a Rum and Coke in the United States and Canada, where the lime juice is optional. Accounts of the invention of the Cuba Libre vary. One account claims that the drink (Spanish for Free Cuba) was invented in Havana, Cuba around 1901/1902. Patriots aiding Cuba during the Spanish-American War and, later, expatriates avoiding Prohibition regularly mixed rum and Cola as a highball and a toast to this West Indies island. According to Bacardi: The world's second most popular drink was born in a collision between the United States and Spain. It happened during the Spanish-American War at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and Americans in large numbers arrived in Cuba. One afternoon, a group of off-duty soldiers from the U.S. Signal Corps were gathered in a bar in Old Havana. Fausto Rodriguez, a young messenger, later re...

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