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“The production [in prison] is symbolic,” Habanos and Tabacuba assure in an official reaction to the report of the NGO Prisoners Defenders.   Questioned by halfwheel following the report by the NGO Prisoners Defenders, Habanos S.A. confirmed that inmates roll cigars in Cuban prisons. “According to reports from Tabacuba, the organization responsible for the cigar rolling industry, the main objective of

According to the Spanish-based organization Prisoners Defenders, more than 11 million Habanos are made each year by inmates in the island’s prisons.   Inmates in Cuban prisons are subjected to forced labor to roll cigars for export, according to a document released yesterday by the Spanish NGO Prisoners Defenders. The report details the situation in Quivican Prison, south of Havana,

During the previous crop, a similar objective could not be met due to the lack of tobacco dryers.   14,623 hectares will be planted in the western province of Pinar del Rio for the 2025-2026 tobacco season. This is the official target announced by officials of the state-owned Tabacuba group, quoted by Granma, the daily newspaper of the Cuban Communist

While visiting the Vuelta Abajo, the president of Tabacuba unveils the official production targets for 2025: 80 million rolled cigars, 70 million of which will be exported.   “We need to produce more than 80 million cigars in the factories. And deliver more than 70 million for export,” declared Marino Murillo, president of Tabacuba, during a visit to the province

The Cuban president made this statement during a visit to the H. Upmann cigar factory in Havana. “Tobacco has become the country’s leading export,” declared Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, during an official visit to the H. Upmann cigar factory in central Havana in early February 2025. “We are

Of the 14,000 hectares of tobacco planned for the 2024-2025 campaign in the Vuelta Abajo, only 10,500 can actually be planted due to a lack of dryers.   A readjustment of the initial plan which provided for the planting of 14,771 hectares was carried out, due to the impossibility of building the necessary processing capacity, announces the regional weekly Guerillero

After a general power outage lasting several days, power is gradually returning to the island. The cigar factories of the capital have resumed work.   The collapse of Cuba’s electricity system had limited consequences for work in cigar factories. The general outage occurred late Friday morning, October 18, prematurely ending the working day of torcedores and other factory employees. According

200 guests discovered this new vitola reserved for the Cuban domestic market on December 8 in Havana. Named in honor of Eusebio Leal, historian of the city of Havana who died in July 2020, this new cigar from the Diplomáticos brand (140 mm x 54, duke) was presented during an event at the Parque Central Hotel in the presence of