Cigar workers continued at the center of political
consciousness after Fidel Castro's revolution agaist General Batista in
1959.
After Castro started to nationalize Cuban and foreign assets, the United
States embargo on Cuba, imposed in 1962, meant that Havana cigars could
no longer be legaly imported into the United States except in small quantities
for personal use. The cigar industry, much of which had been American-owned,
was nationalized along with everything else and put under the control of
the state monopoly, Cubatabaco. |
