{"id":3121,"date":"2020-10-05T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T21:03:29","slug":"afro-cuban-twin-sisters-talk-about-race-through-a-new-cigar-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Cuban Twin Sisters Talk About Race Through A New Cigar Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on: August 17, 2015<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0Carmen Sesin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmarkEnabled\">MIAMI, FL &#8212; When Afro-Cuban-American twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Rodriguez launched their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treslindascubanascigars.com\/\">Tres Lindas Cubanas<\/a>\u00a0cigar line last year, they wanted it to represent some of the diverse Cuban races as well as honor their grandmother, who inculcated them with pride in their African roots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmarkEnabled\">On a recent afternoon in a Coral Gables cigar shop, the twins point out their three signature cigars: \u201c<em>La clarita\u201d<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; which means fair-skinned &#8211; and is light-medium bodied;\u00a0<em>\u201cla mulata,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which means mixed black\/white as is medium-full, much like their grandmother; and\u00a0<em>\u201cla negrita\u201d<\/em>\u00a0means black which is their strongest, full-bodied cigar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboolaReadMoreBelow\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"endmarkEnabled\">\u201cThe industry is dominated by older white Cuban males,\u201d Yvette explained as she and her sister puffed away on one of their \u201cmulata\u201d cigars &#8211; which they say is the perfect blend for afternoons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmarkEnabled\">They say people don\u2019t know how to react when they realize the cigar brand is owned by two young, Afro-Cuban ladies. \u201cThey don\u2019t know whether to welcome us or question us,\u201d Yvonne said. They both speak with a Miami accent or twang prevalent among many first-generation Cubans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/afro-cuban-twin-sisters-talk-about-race-through-new-cigar-n405276\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on: August 17, 2015 By:\u00a0Carmen Sesin &nbsp; MIAMI, FL &#8212; When Afro-Cuban-American twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Rodriguez launched their\u00a0Tres Lindas Cubanas\u00a0cigar line last year, they wanted it to represent some of the diverse Cuban races as well as honor their grandmother, who inculcated them with pride in their African roots. On a recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}