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Nicaraguan's

Nicaragua’s former dictator, Anastasio Somoza, saw an opportunity in cigars. Nicaragua had cultivated cigarette tobacco for years, but in the 1960s the dictator decided to finance the Cubans who arrived to build a new industry. At first, many cigar makers mostly used the tobacco grown in Nicaragua to roll the cigars in small factories in places like Miami. Shortly after that, brands like Padrón and Arturo Fuente opened factories and began acquiring land in Estelí and north of there.

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