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 ...

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 ...

HAVANA, May 4 (UPI) -- A Cuban cigar roller said he is submitting his 230-foot cigar to Guinness World Records for recognition as the world's longest cigar. Jose Castelar Cairo, 67, who uses the name ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Capitalism has its advantages, comrade. A federal judge in Manhattan yesterday said American trademark law protects Cuba’s premium Cohiba brand of cigars and ordered a New York company to quit selling ...

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.

The Cigar Roller. Pablo Medina. Grove Press. $21. 176 pp. If the title of Pablo Medina’s The Cigar Roller gives you feelings of dM-ijM-a vu, you aren’t alone. There’s an eerie resemblance between ...