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07/04/2025
A GOOD CIGAR – FROM CUBA
It may be a bold statement – but I’ll say it anyway:
If you don’t like the scent of ci**rs, Cuba might not be your destination.
Nowhere else in the world are you greeted by the smell – or the "cloud" – of ci**rs quite like in Cuba. It’s in the streets, the bars, the backyards, the barbershops, in the back seats of classic American cars (today’s taxis), at the markets – and even in portraits of national icons like Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, who are almost always shown with a lit cigar in hand.
In other words: The cigar is a cultural cornerstone of Cuban identity.
To some, it’s just smoke.
To others, it’s poetry.
To me, it’s the unmistakable scent of Cuba.
The portraits are from last week – a local to***co farmer I met on the road to Trinidad, in the heart of Sancti Spíritus Province, central Cuba.
