Manuel Marino Murillo Jorge, the president of the Tabacuba enterprise group, recently stated on the National Television News ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Cohiba that gets cigar collectors and aficionados most worked up is the Behike, which was launched in 2010 and celebrated ...

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 ...

Cuban cigars are often hailed as the forbidden fruit. Regardless of how you feel about them, they’re highly coveted and ...

By the mid-19th century, cigars had become a standard means of smoking tobacco, and production moved from Hispaniola to Cuba.

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 ...

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 ...