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The Arturo Fuente cigar brand began production in 1912 from their factory located Ybor City Florida. The cigars were made using only Cuban tobacco until the USA government‘s Cuban embargo which began in 1960. It was at this point that Arturo Fuente cigars switched to using Dominican tobacco, which it still uses today. In the 1970s the production was moved from Ybor City to Nicaragua, and then again to Honduras after the Nicaraguan factory was burned down. After moving back to Florida in the 1980s the company shifted production again to the source of it’s tobacco: the Dominican Republic. Today it maintains four tobacco plantations and six factories in the Dominican Republic.
