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A legendary Cuban cigar maker has broken his own record for rolling the world's longest cigar at 90 meters in length, to help mark the 90th birthday of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
"It measured a little over 90 meters and we cut it off there so it would measure 90. On behalf of workers in tourism...to celebrate tomorrow's birthday of our dear commander Fidel,” said 72-year-old Cuban, Jose Castelar Cairo, better known as "Cueto.”
Cueto's record-long cigar the length of a soccer field took ten days to roll with the help of assistants in a colonial era fort in Havana. The British embassy was on hand to confirm the record and to alert the UK-based Guinness World Records.
Jose Castelar Cairo has been rolling cigars since he was five. He already held the world record for the longest cigar rolled but broke his own record to help mark the 90th birthday of Cuba's retired revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
Castro ruled Cuba for a half century. He was often seeing puffing his favorite, slim cigars until he quit the habit in the 1980s'.
