Cuban economy needs ‘urgent changes’ as US blockade deepens crisis, says president

Miguel Díaz-Canel cites China and Vietnam as possible models for opening up the country’s economy Cuba’s economy needs urgent changes to overcome a crisis intensified by a US oil blockade, the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said in a speech to ...

Miguel Díaz-Canel cites China and Vietnam as possible models for opening up the country’s economyCuba’s economy needs urgent changes to overcome a crisis intensified by a US oil blockade, the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said in a speech to Communist party leaders.“The situation calls for urgent and necessary changes,” Díaz-Canel told the party’s politburo in his frankest admission yet of the need to overhaul the country’s communist model. Continue reading...