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 ...

The cigar factory reader tradition in Cuba dates back at least to 1865; for more than a century, the workers themselves pooled their money to pay the readers to keep their minds occupied by something ...

Beginning in Havana in 1865, workers in cigar factories devised a way to keep their minds active and engaged during long hours of monotonous labor: they began paying a reader, or lector, to read aloud ...

Rising hopes that the half-century U.S. trade embargo on Cuba might be coming to an end are raising concerns for U.S. cigar makers who may face stiffer competition from Cuban cigar imports. But the ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — A former Cuban cigar factory will soon become a boutique hotel in historic St. Augustine. The newest addition to the oldest city will not only preserve history but also bring ...

HAVANA, Cuba–Seated before a machine that checks cigar quality, Orquidea Gonzalez says she is proud to carry on the craft’s tradition and contribute to an export industry that has grown during the ...

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 ...

La Faraona Cigars is a family-owned cigar company located in the heart of Ybor City at 1315 E 7th Avenue. The business is ...

EVERY morning at 8:30 Gricel Valdés-Lombillo mounts a platform at the H. Upmann cigar factory and starts the first of her 30-minute shifts reading to an audience of 150 torcedores, or cigar rollers.

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 ...