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US cable: Cuba to be insolvent within 2-3 years

HAVANA -- A newly released confidential U.S. diplomatic cable predicted Cuba's economic situation could become "fatal" within two to three years, and detailed concerns from other countries' diplomats - including China - that the communist-run country has been slow to adopt reforms.

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