American Caribbean Cigars

Emiliano Lagos owns the Tabacalera American Caribbean, in Estelí, which was already rolling for third parties before it developed its own brands. Gurkha announced in May 2017 that it wanted to acquire it, then gave up the same year to build its own factory (Tobacco Business); American Caribbean remained independent and continues to roll for Gurkha. In 2018, according to Cigar Coop, it also rolled for Toraño, Leccia Tobacco and the Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group.

The company launched its first own brand, La Rosa de Sandiego, in 2015. The Bouncer and Bella Mundo followed, presented at the IPCPR 2018: the first under a Mexican San Andrés wrapper on Nicaraguan filler from Estelí, Jalapa and Ometepe, the second under a Brazilian wrapper known as Cubra, a Sumatra binder and Nicaraguan criollo filler. El Viejo Continente was born of a meeting between Emiliano Lagos and Daniel Guerrero, a Barcelona-based tobacco specialist whose family ran a tobacconist's shop; the range comes in several dress styles and includes two sister lines, Mare Nostrum and The Circus.

Lagos also rolls his personal brand, The Traveler, launched in 2017 in Europe and then in the United States, with vitolas named after international airports, in natural and maduro versions. It carries the Maradona Tribute edition, five hundred boxes in tribute to Diego Maradona, with Nicaraguan and Honduran filler, a San Andrés binder and an Ecuadorian wrapper. The only line rolled outside Nicaragua, El Copey is hand-made in the Dominican Republic, at a factory no source consulted names. The company's presence at trade shows is documented up to the PCA 2021 (halfwheel); The Bouncer and El Copey remain in Cigarworld.de's catalogue in 2026.

The Circus is a line of El Viejo Continente, a brand of Daniel Guerrero; in October 2026, the brand's website lists it among its families, with Mare Nostrum. In October 2021, a blog placed the brand's production, including The Circus Petit (3 1/2 x 44), at the American Caribbean Cigars factory in Estelí. An article of September 2023 describes the brand's own factory, in Condega, without naming The Circus there; in October 2026, Cigarworld.de writes that Guerrero produces his cigars in his tabacalera in Nicaragua.

Range Depth

• The Bouncer

  Wrapper San Andrés (Mexico)

  Mexican San Andrés wrapper and Sumatra binder over Nicaraguan filler from Estelí, Jalapa and Ometepe, presented at the IPCPR 2018, according to cigarworld.de and halfwheel.

• El Viejo Continente

  Wrapper Undisclosed

  Born of the meeting between Emiliano Lagos and Barcelona-based tobacco specialist Daniel Guerrero, it comes in several dress styles (Classic, Maduro, Edición Estelí) without one clearly established wrapper, and in two sister lines, Mare Nostrum and The Circus, according to Neptune Cigars.

• Maradona Tribute

  Wrapper Ecuador

  A five-hundred-box edition in tribute to Diego Maradona, with Nicaraguan and Honduran filler and a San Andrés binder under the Ecuadorian wrapper.

• The Traveler

  Wrapper Undisclosed

  Emiliano Lagos's personal brand, launched in 2017 in Europe and then in the United States, with vitolas named after international airports, in natural and maduro versions, according to Cigar Coop.

• El Copey

  Wrapper Connecticut (Ecuador)

  The only line rolled outside Nicaragua: hand-made in the Dominican Republic, at a factory no source consulted names (cigarworld.de, hacico.de); an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over Dominican binder and filler, according to cigarworld.de.

• Bella Mundo

  Wrapper Brazil (Cubra)

  Brazilian wrapper known as Cubra, Sumatra binder and Nicaraguan criollo filler, presented at the IPCPR 2018, according to Cigar Coop.

• La Rosa de Sandiego

  Wrapper Connecticut, Habano, Maduro

  Three versions at launch, according to an article of August 2015: Connecticut from Ecuador (filler from Nicaragua and Pennsylvania), Habano from Ecuador (Piloto Cubano, Ometepe, Estelí) and Maduro with a San Andrés wrapper (Dominican filler, from Estelí and Jalapa), in Robusto 5 x 52, Toro Gordo 6 x 54 and Immensio XO 6 x 60. The name pays tribute to San Diego de los Baños, in Cuba; five blends were shown at IPCPR 2018, according to an article of August 2018.