Don't light up that Cohiba cigar yet. U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations are opening and most Americans approve, but it is a long legal and legislative journey before full trade can begin across the ...

For more than a century, Cuba was known to make the world's finest, most fabled smokes. So much so, that cigars were nicknamed "havanas." But ever since Washington slapped a trade embargo on Cuba in ...

A Recent Court Ruling Allows a U.S. Company to use the Coveted Cohiba Brand April 3rd, 2013— -- Cuba has accused the U.S. of allowing American companies to "blatantly steal" some of the island's ...

US President Barack Obama takes a whiff of a cuban cigar after one was handed to him at the White House Hanukkah party on Dec 18. [Photo/IC] HAVANA - Milagros Diaz has been rolling cigars for 48 years ...

I’m sitting in a taxi, speeding along the Malecon with windows down. The night air smells heavy with salt; the few lights that mark Old Havana sparkle in the distance. My driver had urged me — oddly — ...

After Fidel Castro took control of Cuba in 1959, many of the country’s cigar makers decamped for more favorable political climates. Most settled in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and ...

Cigar-loving travelers won't have to hide their Cubans in their luggage anymore. Tobacco products from Cuba are among the goods allowed under new trade normalization rules that President Obama ...

Caribbean editor Gay Nagle Myers is in Cuba on a six-day Friendly Planet travel agent fam trip, exploring Havana and its environs. HAVANA -- The best piece of advice I heard today came from Elias ...

Originally a tobacco farmer, Enrique Mons became perhaps Cuba’s greatest connoisseur and retailer of the island’s famous Habanos, or Havana cigars, and was for many years in charge of quality control ...