Cuba's seven-year restoration from...

Cuba's seven-year restoration from the crisis caused at the collapse of its former benefactor, the Soviet Union, has take rise to a halt, local analysts say, blaming declining tourism and reduc imports for putting the brakes forward the economy, reports CNN (April 302002):

"Cuba appears to be entering a recession to be paid to the first trimester performance of the economy's determining sector, tourism," the French commercial office in Havana said. The commercial office added that 2002 forecasts for relatively high oil prices -- Cuba's biggest import -- and