CUBA-ECONOMY-TOBACCO-CIGARS

Women string tobacco leaves at a tobacco drying house in La Coloma, Pinar del Rio province, on February 28, 2023. - International sales of Cuban cigars, one of the island's main export products, increased slightly in 2022. During the pandemic, the industry became the second largest export and a major foreign exchange earner for the island, which has been hit by its worst economic crisis in three decades. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) (Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images)