HAVANA — Looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for Cuba‘s stogie-rolling king Jose Castelar. The 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Inside a Little Havana cigar rolling business in the heart of Cuban Miami, Maria Sierra's gnarled fingers perform the same dance they did for more than three decades for Havana's ...

La Faraona Cigars is a family-owned cigar company located in the heart of Ybor City at 1315 E 7th Avenue. The business is ...

HAVANA — Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But one Cuban man is hoping that an 81.8-metre super-stogie he rolled is something more: a world record. Jose Castelar and his assistants started working on ...

Inside a Little Havana cigar rolling business in the heart of Cuban Miami, Maria Sierra’s gnarled fingers perform the same dance they did for more than three decades for Havana’s famed El Laguito ...

HAVANA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Yolanda Medina, a famous cigar rolling master, has just returned from another trip to China, where she displayed her cigar rolling skills for aficionados of premium Cuban ...

HAVANA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Rolling cigars completely by hand is an art that has been passed down from generation to generation in Cuba. Jose Alvarez, a Cuban cigar roller with over 25 years of ...

A Cuban cigar roller has begun rolling a 70-metre cigar in an attempt to nearly double his previous Guinness world record, a spokesman said. Working eight hours a day for nine days, 67-year-old Jose ...

Over six decades rolling premium cigars with his small, wrinkled hands, Arnaldo Alfonso has taken pride in seeing his “habanos” sampled by visiting heads of state and other dignitaries. Now, he’s ...

A Cuban cigar roller has set out to beat his own record for the world's longest cigar, seeking to build a stogie longer than the 264 feet (81 metres) he made in 2011. Sixty-seven-year-old Jose ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban cigar roller broke his own record on Tuesday by rolling the world's longest cigar, a monster smoke that stretched 268 feet 4 inches (81.8 metres), or most of the length of a ...

On Yosvany Concepcion’s ramshackle farm, there is little to suggest that he is producing a highly sought-after luxury item. The buildings on the farm look like a strong wind could carry them away.