Cuban cigar roller twists it toward a fourth Guinness record

Jose Castelar began rolling cigars when he was five. Now, at 64, the Cuban expert hopes to finish rolling a 20-meter (65-foot) stogie by Wednesday to garner his fourth world record from the Guinness Book.

“I can’t tell you exactly how far I’ll get, but my goal is to beat my former record of 20.41 meters (66.9 feet),” Castelar, knicknamed “Cueto,” told AFP on Sunday.”*

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