HAVANA — It’s the equivalent of buying a Gucci bag on Canal Street. Vendors who fill Havana’s streets selling black-market cigars to unsuspecting tourists are salivating over President Obama’s ...
(CN) - A Cuban government-owned tobacco company won its 12-year legal battle to stop a U.S. cigar producer from using the Cohiba name and trademark in the United States. A federal judge in Manhattan ...
Over six decades rolling premium cigars with his small, wrinkled hands, Arnaldo Alfonso has taken pride in seeing his “habanos” sampled by visiting heads of state and other dignitaries. Now, he’s ...
Dreaming of carrying armloads of cigars out of Cuba now that the U.S. is thawing relations? Not so fast. At least initially, U.S. visitors who treasure the scarce luxury smoke won't be able to bring ...
It is a warm and slightly sticky late November afternoon inside the early-20th-century mansion that houses the global headquarters of Habanos SA, the body that markets Havana cigars. Fierce sunlight ...
Havana is the destination of the moment. In the past couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones and even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—along with Karl Lagerfeld ...
SAN JOSE DE LAS LAJAS, Cuba -- Cuban rum maestro Jose Navarro's taste buds sing when he sips Havana Club, the sweet spirit distilled in this farming town south of the capital. "It has to be Cuban," ...
Contrary to popular opinion, not all Havanas are stellar stogies. Here is how to make the most of the relaxed new rules. It is often easy to spot American cigar smokers in Europe. They are the ones ...