Carlos “Carlito” Fuente, Jr. is president of Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia, the largest family-owned premium cigar company in the world. Headquartered in Santiago, Dominican Republic, they employ 4,000 ...
Written and directed by James Orr, the 53-minute video chronicles the entire process of Cuban cigar making, from planting to packaging, offering rare, never before seen footage of the facilities where ...
You can still find Cuban immigrants hand-rolling cigars in the storefronts of Ybor City, the section of Tampa, Fla., named after a Havana cigar manufacturer. At La Herencia de Cuba, Roberto Ramirez is ...
In 1962, José Orlando Padrón, a third-generation Cuban tobacco grower, ended up in Miami after the Castro regime confiscated his family’s farms. It took only two years for him to set up shop making ...
A staff member at a hotel in Havana, Cuba smokes a hand-rolled cigar October 14. Americans traveling to Cuba will now be able to bring back more cigars. A staff member at a hotel in Havana, Cuba ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's top cigar maker Habanos said on Monday that sales of the company's luxurious smokes had soared to a record $827 million in 2024 as revenue poured in from fast-growing markets ...
Forty years ago, the Rolling Stones released “Undercover of the Night.” Not one of their most successful singles, it peaked at No. 11 on the U.K. charts, but it was accompanied by a memorable video ...
DALLAS — A few hundred feet from a Hong Kong tailor, several fast food joints and an Albertson’s in the Casa Linda neighborhood of East Dallas, Jose Hernandez is rolling cigars. Hernandez, 34, grew up ...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — A former Cuban cigar factory will soon become a boutique hotel in historic St. Augustine. The newest addition to the oldest city will not only preserve history but also bring ...