Despite the U.S. blockade, the production of hand-rolled tobacco, reached six million cigars in the first half of 2025. On Wednesday, Jose Livan Font, the vice president of the state-owned Cuban Tobacco Business Group (TACUBA), announced that Cuba closed the year 2025 with 12,000 hectares of tobacco planted, 8,000 of which are located in the […]

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Throughout the years, the Habano Festival continues to be the ideal scenario and the largest international gathering for lovers of what is considered the best cigar in the world: the Habano.  RELATED: Latin America: A Race for Space Created in 1999, the Festival is held annually in the last week of February in Cuba’s capital, […]