Jose Orlando Padrón has the most compelling life story in the cigar business. His journey from penniless Cuban refugee to Miami icon has taken him face-to-face with two of Latin America’s most famous modern dictators. It has brought down upon him the repeated wrath of local terrorists and foreign revolutionaries. And it has generated wealth that he could only have dreamed about when he arrived in Miami with nothing to his name. Alexander Zaitchik meets the man behind the cigars.