US Hotel Company Makes Deal With Cuba

Starwood Hotels and Resorts has reached a deal with Cuba to renovate three of its deteriorating state-owned hotels, becoming the first U.S. hotel company to operate in the communist country since Fidel Castro seized the properties in his 1959 revolution. Starwood's deal with Havana, reached the day before U.S. President Barack Obama arrives Sunday in Havana for a three-day visit, calls for the company to spend millions of dollars to bring the hotels up to its normal tourist-ready...

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