Cuban cigars are not what they used to be, just like the rest of that country. The best soil in the world for growing tobacco is no longer the best. That whole country went to hell in the last forty years and the tobacco fields went with it..
I have always thought the continued embargo against Cuba was just plain idiotic. I do not, however, trust Castro and think his warm welcome to Obama has a hidden agenda. But I still think the time to remove the embargo is long overdue.