Plasencia cigars

- Eduardo Plasencia left the Canary Islands in 1865 and began growing tobacco in Cuba.
- In 1963, the Plasencia family fled the Castro regime and found their new home in Nicaragua.
- But in 1978 it was the Sandinistas who forced Plasencia to flee again. The family then immigrated to Honduras. In addition to the cultivation of raw tobacco, cigar production developed into the second mainstay of the family business.
- With the end of the civil war, the family returns to Nicaragua.
- With around 6,000 employees in four factories and eight plantations, almost 40 million cigars are produced every year. - It is also because of these resistances and setbacks that the Plasencias had to endure that the family has become the largest raw tobacco manufacturer in the world.