HAVANA, Cuba March 6, 2006 — -- Over a thousand wealthy Cohiba lovers descended on Havana last week for the annual cigar festival. When it comes to building foreign friendships, Cuban President ...
HAVANA - A playful Fidel Castro entertained hundreds of foreign cigar aficionados at a black-tie dinner and auction, joking with his guests and modeling a popular Cuban musician's little white ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban cigar maker broke his own record on Friday by rolling the world's longest cigar at 90 meters (295 feet), the length of a football field, dedicating the monster smoke to ...
For most of us, New Year’s is a day for resolutions. But for Fidel Castro, it marked the culmination of a long-awaited revolution. Fifty years ago on Jan. 1, Castro’s Communist revolution swept aside ...
The U.S. once considered doing Fidel Castro in with an exploding cigar. In 1986 Castro gave up his trademark cigar — deciding it was bad for his health. This month, Cuba banned smoking in public ...
There’s a plenitude of grizzled, cigar-sucking men lending their play-by-play to Cuban politics. Twenty-one year old Monica Simo, who grew up in Miami and now works as a banking analyst in New York ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Packing long cigars into a white box picturing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a Cuban man delicately places a thin wax-paper stamp of quality inside. He then finishes the job with ...
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HAVANA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on ...
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 ...