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Honduran Cigars : Tobacco Growers of Honduras

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Honduran Cigars are quite well known by cigar aficionado’s throughout the US. Honduras is a nation that was badly washed out by its political history, affliction of economy and even the occasional natural disaster created by hurricanes over time. Nonetheless Roatan is a shangri la of the holiday maker, particularly for the cruise tourists. As for San Pedro Sula, it is where the tobacco growers of Honduras live. Beside being one of the most impoverished nations in Central America, Honduras is also one of many states which is still unable to reimburse the loan from the World Bank and the international monetary Fund. In some peoples’s view, the country is a place of misery, crime and political disturbance. This is also probably why the people of Honduras aren’t united in thoughts and behavior patterns. Despite all their varied issues, the people of Honduras do share one common identity though, and that is their cigars. Ever since the cigars from Cuba are excluded from entering the US due to a sanctioned trade embargo against the country, cigars from Honduran have started to grow in familiarity and popularity among the people of the US. In reality Honduran cigars have grown to become the favourite among many cigar lovers in some western european countries. If we were to track the history of Honduran cigars, we are going to find that they really had their roots from Cuba. Many tobacco farmers had made a decision to migrate and settle in their local country, Honduras, when they were no longer permitted to operate their businesses under the communist rule because Fidel Castro commented all businesses in Cuba shall come under the government’s control. Frank Llaneze, the founder and President of the Honduran-American Tobacco S.A. ( H.A.T.S.A. ), is one of the earlier creators of Honduran cigars. He has invented a new type of cigars that had since become highly regarded with the cigar lovers. He was persistence in looking for methods to create a new type of Havana tobacco by mixing it with other Caribbean states’ tobacco species. He knew that he was in urgent need of a new spread of tobacco before all Cuban tobacco was wiped out in the Cuban revolution. After many futile attempts, he finally succeeded in growing a new specie of tobacco seeds in the Honduras’ fruitful soil. This new species of tobacco seed was essentially the offspring of the Cuba and Connecticut tobacco seeds. In today’s world, many respected cigar brands like Excalibur, Hoyo de Monterrey and Punch were produced by H.A.T.S.A. And they’re the top cigar brands which are seriously popular with the North American cigar fans. A mixture of nuts and wood leads to the flavour of the well known Honduran cigars. A smell of spicy and woody finish topped off full-bodied flavor of the delightful cigar. It is not unusual to discover a stick of Honduran cigar, which is comparable to their Havana predecessor, accompanying a toast of red wine. The North American tobacco lovers find great elation in the Honduran cigars, particularly since the Cuban cigars are available only in the pricey black market. Despite being a country of great poverty, Honduras is definitely in possession of one of the planet’s riches that many states would wish to own. It is assumed that in the near future, Honduras will be rid of its misery state and become the tobacco capital of the world. For now, Honduran Cigars will continue to grow in popularity throughout the US and Europe.