Nick Miles
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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It's not really a course of action that Havana chose willingly.
Washington imposed a near total fuel blockade on the island about five months ago.
The Cuban government hopes its changes might just encourage the US to back off a bit.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, told his parliament why the reforms were needed.
Reality imposes urgent and necessary changes upon us.
And when the life of the people becomes so hard, the first duty of the Communist Party and the revolutionary government is not to better explain the crisis, but to change what needs to be changed in order to overcome it.
This was the reaction of some people in the Cuban capital, Havana.
This is indeed a delicate moment for the revolution.
We are experiencing times unlike anything we have ever faced before, but I have faith in the country's leaders and in the people.
Our correspondent in the region, Will Grant, told me more about the proposals.
They really are very, very important.
I mean, this is some sweeping free market reforms as far as the Cuban Communist Party is concerned.
They haven't been this far before, as far as I can see.
They have made piecemeal changes here, there and everywhere over the years since Fidel Castro first fell ill in 2006, was replaced by his brother Raul Castro in 2008 and was sort of forced by circumstance and the state of the economy
into some economic liberalization and the acceptance of tourism as the motor of the economy and so on this would potentially go much much further than that it would give far greater free reign to the private sector increased foreign direct investment including from cuban americans based in the united states so symbolically of course that's very very important
The idea is that there'd be decentralization, so Havana would step back from controlling the municipalities quite so tightly.
There would be less central control of state-run entities.
The idea is the free market would be able to blossom a bit more.
There wouldn't be price caps.
Things of this nature, which have distorted the Cuban economy for so many decades, would be lifted.
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