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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the days start getting longer and winter’s chill gradually gives way to spring, the weather is becoming more conducive to ...

From “rich and full-bodied” to “complex with hints of licorice,” aficionados exhaust the lexicon to capture the essence of Nicaragua’s most highly prized produce — not wine, but cigars, which are ...

Padron boss Jorge Padron pauses between puffs during an interview with AFP at his factory in Esteli in January AFP / INTI OCON Part of the success of Nicaragua's thriving cigar industry is a carefully ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the days start getting longer and winter’s chill gradually gives way to spring, the weather is becoming more conducive to firing up some of the latest Nicaraguan cigars. Made in the Joya de ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...