WikiLeaks cables assess Cuba's recession survival

<p style="text-align: justify;">As an economic crisis began gripping Cuba in early 2009, U.S. diplomats in Havana reported the island was better equipped to withstand the blow than when its Soviet subsidies collapsed in 1989.Havana had diversified its foreign trade and built up its tourism industry in the intervening two decades, they reported. Cuba also was receiving billions in remittances and the government was planning to slash public spending. Read More

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U.S.- Cuban Relations Ease Another Notch

<p style="text-align: justify;">How Black Flags and a News Ticker Caused a Diplomatic Dust-up has stopped flying black flags in front of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana, the latest step towards dismantling an in-your-face confrontation that arose around the building during the George W. Bush administration and brought always contentious relations between the two countries to the breaking point. Read More

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