Articles Posted in the Personalities Category
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Manny Iriarte is Branching Out
An unlikely series of events had to take place for Manny Iriarte to arrive in the cigar industry. Now that he’s considered one of the top photographers in the business, he’s changing the game.
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Cigar industry mourns the loss of Bert Gottfried of Oliva Cigars
This morning at 12:30 AM the cigar industry lost an old friend. Bert Gottfried, the long time Oliva Cigars sales representative, passed away leaving an unimaginable void in the lives of the Oliva family and the cigar industry.
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The Padróns
Every exiled community does it. They substitute. Exiles view their time in a new land as temporary, so they find substitutes in their new land for things they miss from home, as opposed to the immigrant mindset which in many cases denounces the ties that bind them to their homeland. For the large Cuban community exiled in Little Havana post 1959, José Orlando Padrón’s cigars were the perfect substitute.
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The Incomparable Sal Fontana
Sal Fontana was something else… He was the kind of person you couldn’t forget. If you met him once, you had a “Sal Story.”
