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 ...

Havana, Feb. 25-- Today I'm visiting El Laguito, the Cohiba factory where only Castro's own cigars and his gifts for diplomats and heads of state were once made. The factory is in a lovely pale-yellow ...

Miami, Jul 6 (EFE).Miami, Jul 6 (EFE). — A fire destroyed a historic Cuban cigar factory on Sunday afternoon in Tampa, Florida, according to officials who were trying to establish if anyone was inside ...

Submitted photoShown is the La Cubana City in an old photo. All over America old industrial and manufacturing buildings are being turned into art spaces, places where artists can work, teach and show ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- The Jimenez family, led by their matriarch Nelda Pozo-Jimenez, have carried on the famous Cuban tradition of cigar rolling in the heart of Newark, New Jersey for over ...

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a decree that banned all Cuban products from entering the United States. This included the island nation's famed cigars. Now, 52 years later, President Barack ...

A former St. Augustine Cuban cigar factory is set to become a boutique hotel. The former Solla-Carcaba Cigar factory will become a hotel on Riberia Street and Sebastian Harbor Drive. We're told from ...

Inside the century-and-a-half-old H. Upmann cigar company, among the most famous manufacturers of Cuban cigars Above, a worker packages cigars at the H. Upmann cigar factory during the 13th annual ...

I was being driven around Havana the other day when the taxi driver told me a joke. A Cuban descending into hell finds it divided by nationality. The torture of the day involves beatings with sticks ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On this day 137 years ago, a cigar manufacturing business became the first place in Ybor City to roll a Cuban cigar. According to the J.C. Newman’s cigar museum, on April 13, 1886 ...

Last year was a bad year for cigar production in Cuba. That might not worry American cigar smokers too much, as it is still illegal to buy or sell the coveted Cuban cigar in the United States. But the ...