The U.S. embargo on Cuba is the political fact that rearranged the American cigar counter. After the 1959 revolution, Washington tightened trade; in 1962 President Kennedy expanded the embargo. Cuban leaf and Cuban cigars left legal U.S. shops. They did not leave the world.
What happened next is industrial, not a speech: Cuban families and rollers moved; seed left the island; factories opened in Florida, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Honduras. The American smoker’s everyday cigar became a New World cigar. See topics · cuban vs new world and history · the cigar.
This encyclopedia treats the embargo as a date and a market wall. It does not argue the politics.