NEW TIMES IN CUBA

Cuba is a considerably different place since CIGAR AFICIONADO’S last visit, but it remains a cigar paradise for visitors

BY DAVID SAVONA

Most cigar aficionados dream of smoking a cigar in Cuba. It’s the birthplace of the handmade cigar industry, the country that gave us Cohiba and Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, Partagás, Punch and so many more famous and superb brands. It’s a country of stunning beauty and considerable mystery, one teeming with energy and music. It’s also a place of inherent sadness, shackled by a six-decades-old embargo and one where its 11 million citizens live without the freedoms and comforts so many of us take for granted. The editors of Cigar Aficionado have been traveling to Cuba for the entire history of the magazine, and we know it well. In fact, it was a visit by editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken in 1991 that inspired him to create this magazine. But…

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Cigar Aficionado (Digital) - 1 Issue, May/June 2024

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