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Have you heard about Nicaragua yet?

Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I had not heard until Davis mentioned it in another thread full of wisecracks and some of you laughed like it was just another joke but, it's no joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nicaraguan_protests

Not exactly NCR is it? 

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/protesters-in-nicaragua-block-pan-american-highway-stalling-cigar-shipments
  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We were talking about this last night on the vHerf while waiting for you to join.  I hope it's resolved without more loss of life.
    Join us on Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )
  • TX98Z28TX98Z28 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Glad I stocked up on Nicaraguan cigars...maybe grab some more Padron and call it good till this political drought is over.
    If you quote me do the @TX98Z28 in your text or I won't be notified of your quote, Thanks.
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bob_Luken said:
    I had not heard until Davis mentioned it in another thread full of wisecracks and some of you laughed like it was just another joke but, it's no joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nicaraguan_protests

    Not exactly NCR is it? 


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  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Extreme vetting at its best.
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  • MartelMartel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    Heard about it from some missionary types first.  And some coffee guys I know.  They're pretty much one and the same groups, though.

    I have enough cigars to last a while, so this won't affect me immediately.  Not that it matters. I just hope any kind of stall in delivery will actually help people.  May reasonable, equitable, and just solutions be found for all parties.
    Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

    I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot.  I will smoke anything, though.
  • deadmandeadman Posts: 8,849 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A guy in Estelí has been putting videos up on instagram. Students protesting and fighting the police. Said it’s every night til like 3 in the morning.
  • deadmandeadman Posts: 8,849 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now there’s a labor strike 

    https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/nicaragua-on-24-hour-labor-strike
  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bad stuff 
  • ForMudForMud Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like it's heating up down there.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/398269-rubio-crisis-in-nicaragua-could-lead-to-civil-war

    At last count, I should be good for almost two years if I only smoke one a day.
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ForMud said:
    Sounds like it's heating up down there.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/398269-rubio-crisis-in-nicaragua-could-lead-to-civil-war

    At last count, I should be good for almost two years if I only smoke one a day.
    Or, buy sticks from the DR and Honduras...
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  • ForMudForMud Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bet the prices will skyrocket when supply can't met up with demand. There will 148 million less of them.

    https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/u-s-imports-330-million-premium-cigars-in-2017-most-since-1998-nicaragua-named-biggest-supplier
  • skydiverDskydiverD Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can't help myself.....the title of this thread made me do it.....  I can never get this movie line out of my head...….


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  • jd50aejd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just spent some time making a wish list for when I hit the lotto.
    Sure are a lot of backorders listed at Ccom.
  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It’ll sure suck if revolution breaks out. Especially with everything going on in El Salvador. 
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am siting on about 50 lbs of fine cigar tobaccos which I stashed away against the eventual tobaccolypse. I ain't worried. Nic wants to shut down, I'm still rolling.


    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • ForMudForMud Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ^  And close by too......
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