Topic: Havana

Cuba Year In Review 1997

The year 1997 began on a positive note, with the economy showing significant gains, real gross domestic product growing 7.8% in 1996 despite the damage caused by Hurricane Lili in October 1996. Despite worldwide condemnation of the Helms-Burton legislation enacted in 1996, ...

US fails to broker deal on Cuba and OAS

The United States failed in a marathon bid overnight Tuesday to broker a deal for Cuba to return to the Organization of American States.The development all but dashed any near-term hopes for the United States to work out a path with the ...

Benicio del Toro urges Cuba, US to talk

Actor Benicio del Toro -- in Havana to unveil his portrayal of Cuban revolutionary hero Ernest Che Guevara in two Stephen Soderbergh films -- urged longtime US enemies the United States and Cuba to start talking.Asked about perpetually thorny US-Cuban relations, the ...