Churchill Honored at Cuban Festival
By Associated Press
February 26, 2004
HAVANA -- Winston Churchill, frequently remembered puffing on a cigar, was honored this week at Cuba's annual cigar festival.
Jenny Churchill, great-granddaughter of the late British prime minister, smoked a cigar herself Wednesday night during a dinner in his honor.
… Hundreds of foreigners are in town for the cigar festival, which opened Monday.
Foreigners were paying $1,200 each for the five-day program, which includes visits to tobacco fields and factories, and a final elegant "Cigar Dinner" Friday night, traditionally attended by Fidel Castro.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-cuba-churchill,0,3222138.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlinesSat 28 Feb 2004
Contest smokes out best cigars and whisky
WILLIAM LYONS IN HAVANA, CUBA
The Scotsman
THE finest combination of whisky and cigars has been determined at a gathering of 400 aficionados in Havana.
Representatives from the Scotch whisky industry, British hoteliers and retailers flew to Cuba for the annual Habanos Cigar Festival where a panel of judges from countries as far afield as Russia, South Africa and Israel met for the final of the whisky and cigar challenge.
... "There is much that Scotland can learn from Cuba and there is much that Cuba can learn from Scotland and I hope there will be a few more marriages between the two countries in the future."
… The winning whisky was presented last night at a gala dinner to celebrate the ending of the five-day Habanos cigar festival, with Fidel Castro, the Cuban president and the Rolling Stones’ singer Sir Mick Jagger.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=233822004