Can you guess the Top 3 Cigar Cities in the US? We’ll give you a hint: two of the three are located in Florida. That’s right. Close to the cigar making Mecca of Cuba, both Miami and Tampa are two of the country’s most cigar friendly cities. The third city is less obvious but still [...]
On February 19, Craig Kelly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary with the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, “became the highest ranking U.S. official sent to Cuba by President Obama for immigration talks,” according to The New York Daily News. One of the top reasons for the trip was to continue discussion of the Cuba-U.S. [...]
Cuba’s economy is hurting badly, so much so that they are cutting back on food and agriculture imports from the U.S. “Crippling economic malaise” is how the Associated Press describes the situation down south. Even though the U.S. is still the largest seller of food to Cuba, the communist nation is now turning to counties [...]
Will Americans be the first in line for Cuban cigars if the embargo is dropped? Maybe so. What if the U.S. got to manufacture and sell cigars made with Cuban tobacco… to the U.S. market? That would be the fair thing, after all. A recent Cigar Aficionado article from writer James Suckling says that the [...]
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 [...]
