As tensions rose between the United States and Cuba, Castro nationalized important industries within Cuba. Premium cigars were among those nationalized and many Cuban tobacco-growing families lost everything and fled to the US, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras to rebuild. Hand Rolled follows their decades-long struggle to reestablish themselves in uncertain Latin American economies.

CHAPTERS

00:00 The Last Dictator of Cuban
07:18 Tampa
10:09 Cigar Culture
14:03 Convoluted Regulation
19:53 It All Begins with the Seed
23:44 The Robainas: Weathering the Storm
27:56 1960s-1970s Rebuilding in the New World
36:04 1980s A Steady Decline
44:05 Cigar Moment: Stamp in Time
47:37 1990s Crazy Boom
55:13 The Survivors
58:35 The Transformation
1:03:37 The Great Cuba Debate
1:05:49 The 2000s Old Traditions in the New World
1:17:38 The Crossroads
1:27:08 First Cigar