Cuban cigar guru dies, aged 91
A tobacco grower whose crops yielded some of Cuba’s most renowned leaves used in the country’s cigar Guru production has died of cancer, aged 91.
Alejandro Robaina – such an important figurehead in the industry that one of the Caribbean island’s top smoking brands was named after him – had, according to local radio announcers, been a “victim of a sombre illness”.
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