ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Havana Conference

Okay kiddo, let me explain the Havana Conference to you. The Havana Conference was a big meeting that happened a long time ago in the city of Havana, which is in the country of Cuba. Imagine all your friends from school coming over to your house to play. That's kind of what the conference was like, except it was grown-ups from lots of different countries who came to talk about important things.

You know how when you and your friends play together, you might argue about what game to play or who gets to go first? Well, in the Havana Conference, the different countries argued about things like trade, money, and cooperation. They wanted to figure out how to work together better so they could all be happy and successful.

Some countries at the conference were really powerful, like the United States and the Soviet Union. They wanted to show off how strong and important they were by telling the other countries at the conference what to do. But other countries, like Cuba and some in Latin America, wanted to have more say in what happened at the conference.

In the end, they all agreed on some important things, like making sure that everyone had equal rights and economic opportunities. It was a big step forward for cooperation between different countries.