This wasn’t simply the limestone and brick construction, but its place in the nation’s history — directly across the street ...

Under the new plan, Parodi said it will purchase the cigars from Family Tobacco Trader, which will use La Aurora, a cigar manufacturing plant in the Dominican Republic, for the production.

Some of the plants are flopping over or have grown so tall that they need to be pruned so the leaves, which are rolled into cigars, don’t lose their potency. “It’s not normal.

At Cuba’s yearly cigar festival in February, the Habanos company, a foreign joint venture with the Cuban government that sells Cuban cigars abroad, announced record sales of $537 million in 2018.

Here's how it makes a fine Cuban cigar. Tobacco plants are generally planted late in the year, and grown for three months before picking it, leaf by leaf.

By Sarah Jacobs Mar 20, 2016, 9:10 AM PT A tobacco farm in Cuba Ramon Espinosa/AP Images In 2015, the embargo was lifted between the US and Cuba — and once again, Cuban cigars were available to ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami cigar maker Jose Montagne has been fighting for more than a decade to protect his catchy Cuban brand name, Guantanamera, from Cuban government trademark lawyers. But a ...

Cuba has what some see as the perfect environment for growing cigar tobacco. The island's soil allows the plants to produce very high quality leaves, said Alan Dye, a professor of economics at ...

Until recently, conventional wisdom held that Cuban cigars should be filled with three types of tobacco leaves. The volados, which have little flavor, are at the bottom of the plant, and their ...