The following column was first published in February of 2012, shortly after my 11th trip to Cuba. I am in Cuba this week, so I am republishing this essay on the Cuban tobacco industry. I have ...

In Cuba, tobacco farmers are seeing their best crop in years, ... This spring, the fields in Pinar del Rio Province, some 90 miles (150 kilometers) west of Havana, ...

Usually the winter months are Cuba’s dry season, perfect for growing and harvesting tobacco for top brands like Cohiba, Montecristo and Partagas. There’s been so much rain that fields are ...

With more visitors in Cuba, cigar sales on the island are brisk. One Cuban family has been producing tobacco the same way for well over 150 years and there’s a cigar, Vegas Robaina, named after ...

Cuba is trying to boost cigar production in anticipation of the U.S. trade embargo’s end, but tobacco fields lie fallow, and the country won’t likely be ready for the demand boom.

Visit the capital city of Havana and other colonial cities, along with fishing villages and tobacco fields, on a tour to Cuba, one of the hottest travel destinations for 2018.

One is a weathered tobacco picker who harvests bright-green leaves in the fields of Pinar del Rio province. Another is a Havana resident who selects the best leaves with elaborately manicured ...

The Category 3 hurricane was particularly rough on the Vuelta Abajo region -- described as Cuba's tobacco triangle. Trees were uprooted, roofs blown off, fields flooded, and tobacco drying houses ...

Cuban tobacco legend Alejandro Robaina celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday, weakened by ill health but surrounded by friends and family and the tobacco fields that have been his life.

Usually the winter months are Cuba’s dry season, perfect for growing and harvesting tobacco for top brands like Cohiba, Montecristo and Partagas. There’s been so much rain that fields are ...