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 ...

GRANADA – Five years ago, two Canadian friends taking Spanish classes at Casa Xalteva decided to wander across the street during recess break to check out Doña Elba Cigars, a landmark family-run ...

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 ...

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 ...