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I’m sitting in a taxi, speeding along the Malecon with windows down. The night air smells heavy with salt; the few lights that mark Old Havana sparkle in the distance. My driver had urged me — oddly — ...

Forty years ago, the Rolling Stones released “Undercover of the Night.” Not one of their most successful singles, it peaked at No. 11 on the U.K. charts, but it was accompanied by a memorable video ...

HAVANA -- Pungent smoke filled the room, obscuring the lights and leaving clothing and skin reeking. There were applause, shouts and laughter, and above all plenty of H. Upmann Sir Winstons - ...

Caribbean editor Gay Nagle Myers is in Cuba on a six-day Friendly Planet travel agent fam trip, exploring Havana and its environs. HAVANA -- The best piece of advice I heard today came from Elias ...

HAVANA, Cuba March 6, 2006 — -- Over a thousand wealthy Cohiba lovers descended on Havana last week for the annual cigar festival. When it comes to building foreign friendships, Cuban President ...

I was being driven around Havana the other day when the taxi driver told me a joke. A Cuban descending into hell finds it divided by nationality. The torture of the day involves beatings with sticks ...

A staff member at a hotel in Havana, Cuba smokes a hand-rolled cigar October 14. Americans traveling to Cuba will now be able to bring back more cigars. A staff member at a hotel in Havana, Cuba ...

HAVANA — Those infamous, old-school American mobsters who gallivanted around Cuba’s capital in the 1940s and ’50s would have disapproved of two things my girlfriend and I got ourselves into one night ...

HAVANA Gripped between the teeth of Fidel Castro, Winston Churchill, a Cuban peasant or a Western businessman, the cigar has long been a male preserve. Now however Cuba hopes to woo the opposite sex ...

A cigar lounge in suburban Detroit is decorated with paintings and photos of famous people with a stogie: John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, even the 1950s Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. "We have ...