Trump might make it more difficult to get a Cuban cigar — here's why they're the best By Sarah Jacobs Jun 15, 2017, 1:16 PM PT A tobacco farm in Cuba Ramon Espinosa/AP Images ...

How a real Cuban cigar is made, shown in 13 gorgeous photos By Sarah Jacobs A tobacco farm in Cuba Ramon Espinosa/AP Images Oct 18, 2016, 6:10 AM PT ...

With more visitors in Cuba, cigar sales on the island are brisk. One Cuban family has been producing tobacco the same way for well over 150 years and there’s a cigar, Vegas Robaina, named after ...

Cuba's finest tobacco leaf is grown and cured in western-most Pinar del Rio province where the just-concluded harvest produced 25.4 million leaves, according to local radio reports, compared with ...

Hurricane Lili battered Cuba's tobacco industry when it roared across the western part of the island this week, destroying many of the curing houses used to dry tobacco for the country's world ...

Farmers Andre Alvares, 60, (R), and Javier Sancho, 47, load a cart with fresh tobacco leaves to be taken to a curing barn at a tobacco farm in Cuba's western province of Pinar del Rio, Jan. 26, 2016.

Image | 2110066241 Caption: The cigar is both a historic symbol of Cuba and a bellwether of its uncertain future. An economic crisis is gripping the country, the worst since the Revolution in 1959 ...

Inside Cuba’s Festival of Havana, One of the World’s Largest Cigar Celebrations From lavish events to walking plant grounds, visitors are immersed in the culture of the centuries-old favorite.

Tobacco leaves must be dried several months in curing houses before they are ready to be fashioned into cigars. Unless the leaves are cured correctly, they are useless for cigar-making.

Because of this ancient association, cigars play a central role at the café's festive Cuban Night events, which include food, drinks and live music, running from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. on Thursdays ...

They are among the many faces of Cuba's tobacco industry, which is a rare bright spot in the island's struggling economy. Increased yields and better quality tobacco made 2017 one of the best ever ...

Cuban women make cigars As for the workers who see these cigars to completion, Zoe Nacedo Primo points out: "There is something very important here that needs to be talked about: the role of women ...