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Cuba launched its embassy in South Korea on Tuesday as a follow-up step to the establishment of diplomatic relations early ...
SAN LUIS, Cuba — A neighbor lent him a house to dry leaves, and he had a little fertilizer saved, so he plucked up the courage to plant tobacco. Now, Hirochi Robaina can hardly believe the ...
Santiago Cuban farmer Maritza Carpio, 62, is optimistic. Five months after Hurricane Ian wreaked havoc on the island nation and its vital tobacco industry, she has started drying leaves for habano ...
WASHINGTON, May 20. -- From a revenue point of view, the action of the Spanish Government in prohibiting the export of Cuban tobacco will have but little effect in comparison with, the injury it ...
IDEAS contributor and freelance writer Pedro Mendes visited the farmer when he travelled to Cuba last fall, to learn about both the cigar-making-process, and what tobacco means to Cubans.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla has expressed satisfaction with the reported decrease in inflation in Cuba, ...
TAMPA — For American cigar aficionados, Cuban tobacco is the forbidden fruit, long-blocked from the United States market by its five-decade-old embargo on the island nation. But in this new era ...
Ruling in a three-decade dispute over the right to trademark the famed Cohiba brand of cigars, a federal court in Virginia has decided Cuba’s state-owned tobacco company properly sought ...
Cuba launched its embassy in South Korea on Tuesday as a follow-up step to the establishment of diplomatic relations early ...
The Category 3 hurricane was particularly rough on the Vuelta Abajo region -- described as Cuba's tobacco triangle. Trees were uprooted, roofs blown off, fields flooded, and tobacco drying houses ...
Now, Hirochi Robaina can hardly believe the resulting miracle. Robaina, one of the most recognized tobacco producers in Cuba, marvels as he walks through the intense green of plants that have ...