Cigar Dinner Raises $80,000 for Charity

Alejandro Benes
Posted: September 29, 2009

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"Will show up!" Garcia shouted.

Garcia spoke warmly about the evening's festivities, the cause and then told a story of how he and cigarmaker Carlos "Carlito" Fuente Jr. became good friends when Garcia traveled to the Dominican Republic to film scenes for his movie, "The Lost City," a story about the impact of the Castro revolution on Cuban families. Garcia had to shoot scenes in a tobacco field, and some at a Latin American presidential palace. Garcia had already met Fuente and had an open invitation to visit the Dominican Republic.

Garcia visited and asked Fuente if a meeting with then-Dominican President Hipolito Mejia could be arranged so that Garcia could ask for help in shooting the scene in which the Cuban presidential palace was attacked. Fuente said it would be no problem. Garcia could little predict the new insights he would gain into his host's "hobbies."

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