Cubans fear for their economic future after US withdraws sick diplomats


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Rio de Janeiro: It was grim, unsettling news: the United States warned Americans not to travel to Cuba and ordered the withdrawal of more than half its diplomats in Havana.


The announcement, which spread around the island in spurts, largely by word-of-mouth, dealt a harsh blow to Cubans who had hoped the nascent normalisation of relations with the US that began in late 2014 would usher in a period of economic growth and greater prosperity in the impoverished communist nation.


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