Do you feel like your rights to smoke a cigar are being trampled? Well, unite fellow cigar aficionados, and consider being part of an organized body who’s fighting for your freedom to do just that, the Cigar Rights of America (CRA).
We love it when businesswomen rise up through the ranks, leave a lasting mark on their chosen industry, and are recognized for their achievements! One such leader is Modesta Fondeur, “one of the most powerful women in the premium cigar industry,” so says Cigar Aficionado. Fondeur’s acumen will be missed though, as it has been [...]
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin returned from a trip to Cuba this past October where he learned how the Communist country prepares for and copes with natural disasters. The Mayor is hoping to apply those evacuation lessons to the emergency preparedness plan for New Orleans, which has not yet recovered fully from Hurricane Katrina’s battering [...]
If the Cuban embargo vanished today, the opportunity for the island country’s agricultural market to develop and produce would be enormous, one expert says. “The Cuban climate is very good, has good resources, and an agricultural system with potential,” says William A. Messina Jr., an agricultural economist in the University of Florida’s Food and Resource [...]
In March 2009, Kansas Representative Jerry Moran (R) introduced a bill that would allow the U.S. agriculture industry to more easily sell products to Cuba. Known as the ‘Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2009’, it has since been referred to committee, where it remains. The bill’s overall purpose is to reduce trade barriers between the [...]
The number of patents that Cuba has filed and been awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has steadily increased for almost the past ten years, mainly, because of its burgeoning biotech industry, reports El Nuevo Herald. Cubans have been awarded 74 patents since the Patent and Trademark Office’s records were digitized in 1975. [...]
The “When will the Cuban embargo end?” discussion won‘t end—and for good reason. Meanwhile, a chorus of congresspeople at least want to move to the next step, that being a removal on the travel ban. Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona’s Sixth District (R) recently called for the travel ban to be lifted. It’s a call [...]
In light of the slowly fading global recession, Cuba is looking to boost domestic agricultural production, likely because the cost of buying internationally is going up, according to CBS News. 80 percent of the food for Cuba’s citizens are imports, however Cuba has had to slash imports by 30 percent to deal with a tight [...]
The Antiques Roadshow has valued a six inch-long cigar once smoked by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at £800 (about $1300 in American dollars). WWII veteran Ronald Williams obtained the cigar when he served as a butler to Churchill, who was a lifelong cigar enthusiast, during the Casablanca Conference, a European war strategy meeting between [...]
Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are almost here… so what do you buy the ultimate cigar lover as a gift? About.com offers some ideas, like a box of the gift-givee’s favorite stogies. Everyone’s cigar preference is different, so find out what they like, and wrap it up with a bow. Then again, maybe you’re willing to [...]
