Slippery, shapeless and slow to be repaid
Fidel Castro’s government wants a special deal from its creditors
TO THE casual visitor, Cuba's capital looks like a city on the up and up. New hotels are being built, foreign tourists spend their dollars and crumbling colonial buildings in old Havana are being restored. Not only has Fidel Castro's communist regime survived countless forecasts of its demise, but Cuba's economy, after years of hardship following the collapse of the Soviet Union, is growing again at a steady annual rate of around 5%.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Slippery, shapeless and slow to be repaid”
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