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[*] posted on 12-17-2005 at 10:46 AM
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I worked for a few years with a number of Cuban refugees, one of those as a young man worked on his family's Tobacco farm in Cuba. He was a fanatic about Cigars and said that the quality products coming out of Honduras and the Dominican were as good or better than the current Cuban products. I tried quite a few different cigar brands as a result of his trying to educate me. The few Over-Priced Cubans I bought in Mexico seemed to bear out his opinion.

BTW, His family's life story is one that truly illustrates the difference between a Communist dictatorship and the freedom we enjoy. His Grandfather started out Commercial fishing from a small skiff and farming someone else's land. By the time my friend grew up, his father owned a large fishing business with a number of bigger fishing boats and a sizeable amount of farmland devoted to tobacco. When the revolution came, that hard work and success made the family a target of the Fidelistas so they fled to the U.S.
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