Tampa’s historic district, Ybor City was founded in 1885 by a group of cigar manufacturers, and Cuban, Spanish and Italian immigrants worked factories in the once-thriving industry. It’s a labor of ...
No Cuba experience is complete without a trip to Pinar del Río in the island’s western reaches. Just two hours outside of Havana, this province is home to tobacco plantations where you can see ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban cigar roller broke his own record on Tuesday by rolling the world's longest cigar, a monster smoke that stretched 268 feet 4 inches, or most of the length of a football ...