WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to lift a longstanding U.S. ban on family travel and remittances to Cuba, a senior administration official said Friday, in what could be an opening gesture toward more openness with the Castro regime.
The move will fulfill a campaign promise and follows more modest action in Congress this year to [...]
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Move over, Cancun. Step aside, Acapulco. Another island could soon become the Spring Break Capital of the World.
It may be time to party hearty … in Cuba.
If some U.S. lawmakers are right, American tourists could hit the beach in Cuba, and help defeat [...]
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Perhaps by the end of this year we, who live in Las Vegas, will see some modification done to the relatively new statewide smoking ban. There is a movement in Carson City, NV to amend the ban to include restaurants or bars that serve food to allow customers to smoke as well in certain areas [...]
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Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold
US companies are queuing up as the president moves to ease restrictions on travel and trade, raising hopes of warmer relations and an end to the embargo.
President Barack Obama is poised to offer an olive branch to Cuba in an effort to repair the [...]
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Los Angeles, February 27, 2009 – It’s true: premium cigar sales were down in 2008, but were still quite respectable by historical standards.
Figures released for December 2008 by the Cigar Association of America showed that for the year as a whole, premium cigar imports totaled 271.25 million, down 63.92 million or 19.1%. That’s a significant [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We must recognize the ineffectiveness of our current policy and deal with the Cuban [...]
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From the latest issue of Cigar Insider by Cigar Aficionado Magazine:
THERE ARE SIGNS THAT THE SMOKING BAN TREND COULD BE EASING.
In the past 30 days, lawmakers in three states have made initial moves that would ease smoking bans. A bill in Colorado, which is expected to be introduced shortly, would change the state’s draconian Clean [...]
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Cigar Aficionado Magazine has a very interesting article in there current issue, describing in detail what President Obama should do on the Cuban Embargo issue and why. It’s a very long article but worth a read as it makes a lot of sense.
Perhaps one day we can all enjoy a LEGAL Cuban cigar.
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While the nation is pondering the current stimulus bill, a few enlightened lawmarkers have introduced a bill that would allow travel to Cuba for the first time since 1963. While it appears to not address the importing of cigars, or bringing cigars back from a trip to Cuba, this bill does create unrestricted travel to [...]
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In the cozy confines of a former speakeasy in Boston’s North End, men and women gather nightly to sip cognac and savor a cigar.
But these days, Stanza dei Sigari, the cigar lovers’ respite on Hanover Street, isn’t so relaxed.
On Thursday, the Boston Public Health Commission will vote on a tough smoking ban that could put [...]
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