page_title: Rolando Reyes Sr.
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Rolando Reyes Sr. / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Cuba - Havana Partagas Cigar Factory. Français&#160;: Fabrique des cigares Partagas à La Havane, Cuba.
context_page_description: Don Rolando Reyes Sr. is a well-known Honduran cigar maker of Cuban origin formerly residing in Danlí, Honduras. He is a master blender, roller and is the creator of Cuba Aliados, Puros Indios and other famous cigar brands. Don Rolando is widely known throughout the cigar industry for his unusual work habits: he works at night when everyone has left, inspecting the day's production. He is married and has three children: a son, Rolando Reyes Jr., and two daughters, Oneida Reyes-Diez and Seida Reyes.
context_section_description: Rolando Reyes was born in 1924 into a large family of fourteen (seven boys and seven girls, in Zulueta, Las Villas Province, Cuba (now in Villa Clara Province). His father owned a trucking business, but unlike his siblings, he wished to become a tabacalero, a tobacconist. At nine years old, Rolando was apprenticed to Silvio Santana of the Tabacalera Pequeña in Zulueta, where he was taught all aspects of cigar making. He went to school at 8 in the morning until noon, and then worked in the factory from 1 (1300 hrs) in the afternoon until 9 at night (2100 hrs). After two years at Tabacalera Pequeña, he left there to work in the Aquilar factory in nearby Remedios.
caption: Partagás factory, Havana Cuba
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