Workers harvest tobacco leaves for cigars at a plantation in Danli, Honduras, May 8, 2023. Honduras is one of the leading cigar-making countries in the world(Photo ...
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 ...
In Cuban, Dominican and Honduran cigar factories decades ago, a man — El Lector, or “he who reads” — used to sit in a chair in front of the rows of cigar rollers bent over their desks. His job was to ...