As she speaks, her father Jose -- or "Don Pepin," as he likes ... Like many of the founding fathers of Nicaragua's cigar dynasties, Don Pepin and Orlando Padron came over from Cuba, whose Havana ...

It took only two years for him to set up shop making cigars employing just one roller. Padrón eventually relocated his factory to Nicaragua ... son of the late Don José and president of the ...

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 ... experimenting to please the customer. If ...

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 ... AFP / INTI OCON As she speaks, her father Jose -- or "Don Pepin," as he likes to be called -- leads a tour ...

As she speaks, her father Jose -- or "Don Pepin," as he likes ... Like many of the founding fathers of Nicaragua's cigar dynasties, Don Pepin and Orlando Padron came over from Cuba, whose Havana ...

Like many of the founding fathers of Nicaragua's cigar dynasties, Jose and Orlando Padron came ... receptive soil of the Nicaraguan highlands. Don Pepin left the island in 2001 to found his ...