Don't light up that Cohiba cigar yet. U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations are opening and most Americans approve, but it is a long legal and legislative journey before full trade can begin across the ...

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," ...

I have good news for the winners and the losers of the election, whoever they may be. The winners may enjoy the pleasure of celebrating victory with genuine Cuban cigars. The losers can drown their ...

A Recent Court Ruling Allows a U.S. Company to use the Coveted Cohiba Brand April 3rd, 2013— -- Cuba has accused the U.S. of allowing American companies to "blatantly steal" some of the island's ...

Cuba’s legendary cigars have clocked record sales in 2017, thanks largely to Chinese consumption. As manufacturers try to conquer new markets with smoker accessories, there are even academies to teach ...

I’m sitting in a taxi, speeding along the Malecon with windows down. The night air smells heavy with salt; the few lights that mark Old Havana sparkle in the distance. My driver had urged me — oddly — ...

Before Miami was a spot on the map, Tampa’s Ybor City was rolling Cuban cigars and baking bread the way las abuelas did in Havana. The humble ethnic neighborhood has quietly turned out a number of ...

Cigar-loving travelers won't have to hide their Cubans in their luggage anymore. Tobacco products from Cuba are among the goods allowed under new trade normalization rules that President Obama ...

After Fidel Castro took control of Cuba in 1959, many of the country’s cigar makers decamped for more favorable political climates. Most settled in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and ...

Caribbean editor Gay Nagle Myers is in Cuba on a six-day Friendly Planet travel agent fam trip, exploring Havana and its environs. HAVANA -- The best piece of advice I heard today came from Elias ...