GRANADA – Five years ago, two Canadian friends taking Spanish classes at Casa Xalteva decided to wander across the street during recess break to check out Doña Elba Cigars, a landmark family-run ...

MANAGUA, NicaraguaMANAGUA, Nicaragua — President Barack Obama has solved the economic crisis – at least for one cigar company. As soon as Obama won the November election, Granada 1524 Cigars of Corona ...

While it may not get as many tourists as its southern neighbor Costa Rica, Nicaragua is quickly becoming one of the hottest places to travel in Central and South America. Also known as "The Land Of ...

Part of the success of Nicaragua's thriving cigar industry is a carefully honed mystique of family: how the clannish industry was forged and maintained by a handful of fathers, sons, cousins, brothers ...

Nicaragua has long had a history of civil unrest, and as anyone who follows the news recently is aware, it is once again a country in chaos. Rioting, road closures, and even slayings are all too ...

Nicaraguan cigars are smoked in more than 90 countries around the world - Copyright AFP Oswaldo RIVAS Nicaraguan cigars are smoked in more than 90 countries around ...

With skilled hands and four decades of experience, Aristo Torres mixes tobacco leaves in a cigar factory in northern Nicaragua, most of which are exported to the United States. To make the cigar “we ...

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 ...

Esteli (Nicaragua) (AFP) – With a deftness that comes from four decades of experience, Aristo Torres sorts tobacco leaves at a factory in Nicaragua -- a country making great strides in the manufacture ...