Cuban sugar burns to recapture sweet smell of success

A sweet smell of treacle used to fill the air in the village of Pedro Betancourt -- but like the workers from the derelict Cuba Libre sugar refinery, it has dispersed. It was the smell of success against the odds for Cuba, reviled by the United States and its allies in the Cold War but still a world champion sugar producer -- until the Soviet Union fell and stopped buying it from Fidel Castro's communist regime.