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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANAGUA (Reuters) - While U.S. President Barack Obama tries to kick an old smoking habit, a Nicaraguan company has produced the latest in a flood of merchandise trying to cash in on his popularity -- ...

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 ...

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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 ...