Perdomo (cigar brand)

[2] Following the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Silvio Perdomo was arrested by revolutionaries and imprisoned at the Isla de los Pinos prison, where he was held for three years.

[4] After recovering through the aid of a friend, Nick Senior emigrated to the United States via the Uruguayan Embassy[5] with the help of a sponsorship from the Catholic Church.

[1] His connection with the cigar manufacturing industry severed, Nick Senior settled near Washington, DC and resumed his life as an immigrant working as a janitor in a mental institution for $11 per week.

[6] Nick Junior attended Hialeah High School before joining the U.S. Navy, in which he served as an air traffic controller.

[6] Following completion of his military stint, Nick Junior gained employment in the same field at Miami International Airport.

[8] By 1997 he had reached the limits of production at his small Miami facility and a move was necessitated to Ybor City, near Tampa, a historic area for American cigarmaking.

By 2001, Tabacalera Perdomo employed 622 people in Central America as well as 24 in the United States, who were projected to make 10 million cigars for the year.

[12] Today Perdomo's manufacturing operation is based in an 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m2) facility in Estelí, Nicaragua,[6] known colloquially as "El Monstro" (The Monster).

[13] The building is the second-largest cigarmaking facility in Nicaragua, trailing only the factory of Nicaraguan American Tobaccos S.A. (NATSA), also located in Estelí.

[15] The couple's son, Nicholas Perdomo III (born c. 1992), is being taught every aspect of the cigar making process from planting to packaging.