22 February 2012
After the execution of the legendary Comandante Che, the Argentine aristocrat Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, the peasants of the Bolivian town of Cochabamba peasants came ...
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22 February 2012
The first professional tobacco research programmes began in Cuba at the dawn of the 20th century. The reason behind it was an event that had proved more than merely unpl...
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22 February 2012
President Obama has renewed his authority under the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act to extend the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, according to a statement from the White Hou...
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22 February 2012
There are two brands in the world named Fonseca. The first to appear in the early part of the 19th century was Fonseca port. But today this wine is known only to a small...
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22 February 2012
A conversation in three acts.
Characters
Alejandro Aniseto Maruto Robaina , the Old Man, a tobacco farmer
Fidel Castro Rus , the leader of the country
A Reporter from Mosco...
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22 February 2012
Today there are thirty-three different kinds of cigars made in Cuba. Almost half of them have knock-offs: on the American market one can buy Partagas, Romeo y Julieta, a...
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22 February 2012
This story began not so long ago. Things like that happen sometimes: The history becomes classics without getting old. Classics are Montecristo, the world's sales leader...
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22 February 2012
Why do thousands of cigar lovers from all over the world flock to Havana year in and year out? We got together with one of our longtime friends, Christopher Pushkar, and...
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22 February 2012
Cuba, unlike other cigar-producing countries, applies rigid standards: all robustos of all brands, just as Churchills or double coronas, are of the same size. On the one...
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22 February 2012
Hey, man! You know the guy I mean. You must have seen him in the picture – the photo, taken by old Alberto Korda at the protest rally, when the counterrevolutionaries bl...
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