World's biggest cigar festival opens in Havana!

Cuba has launched this year’s glitzy Havana Cigar Festival on a high note, amid news that international sales of the country's famous hand-rolled cigars are rising for the first time since the global recession hit.

 

Billed as the biggest international event of its kind, the festival, now in its thirteenth year, is a showcase for the Communist island's best known and most iconic export. It also provides a rare splash of decadence in an otherwise impoverished no-frills society.