Cigar Maker Angel Cuesta’s legacy reaches to Spain

 

(tbo.com) TAMPA - You might call it cigar diplomacy.
When relations between the United States and Spain were at a low point in the 1920s after the U.S. had backed Cuba’s successful fight for independence and won the Spanish-American War, a wealthy civic leader who founded Tampa’s famed Cuesta-Rey cigar label was called upon to help mend the rift.
So successful was Angel Cuesta that last week, representatives from Spain visited Tampa to walk in his footsteps and lay flowers at his grave to mark the 90th anniversary of the Cuesta delegation. Continued