Like many cigar makers Ernesto Perez-Carrillo can trace his history back to Cuba where his father was born in 1904. His father rolled and sold penny cigars in the streets of Havana before working as a tobacco buyer for many years. In 1948 he purchased El Credito, a factory in the city of Havana. Then the Cuban revolution began and the factory was confiscated by the government and the family fled to Miami, Florida. For […]
