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The emergency economic package comes amid an ongoing US pressure campaign that has left the island nation reeling.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has acknowledged that some of the island's economic problems 'don't come from outside', a reference to foreign pressure campaigns [Getty]
By AFP and Reuters
Published On 18 Jun 2026
Cuba’s Communist Party has approved a raft of unprecedented free-market measures as part of an emergency economic package.
The package was submitted to the country’s National Assembly on Thursday, where it is all but assured to pass.
The plan would expand opportunities for private enterprise and create measures to attract additional foreign investment, including from Cubans abroad.
It could also set the stage for private real estate development on the Caribbean island and the transformation of state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes. It would also allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated finance sector.
The reform package signals a dramatic shift for Cuba, which is led by the Communist Party.
Speaking to the party’s Central Committee in a broadcast on Thursday, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the country’s dire economic situation could not be blamed on external pressure alone.
For decades, the US has imposed a trade embargo on Cuba, weakening its economy. Since January, the US pressure against Cuba has increased, with the administration of President Donald Trump blocking fuel deliveries to the island.
But Diaz-Canel acknowledged that some of the present-day economic strife was due to domestic factors, referencing “obstacles that don’t come from outside, nor the blockade”.
He pointed to “slowness, bureaucracy and norms that impede those who want to produce” as well as “decisions that we have put off”.
“The situation calls for urgent and necessary changes,” he said.
On Thursday, the European Union also increased pressure on Cuba, passing a resolution that called for sanctions on Diaz-Canel and the leadership of Grupo de Administracion Empresarial SA, a business conglomerate operated by the Cuban military.
The EU resolution condemned what it described as “the systematic repression” by the Cuban government, while calling for “profound economic and political change”.
In his address, Diaz-Canel suggested there would likely be some opposition to the emergency economic plan from hardliners in the Communist Party, which has officially governed Cuba since 1965.
Some of the reforms, he said, “will not have absolute consensus, but cannot be postponed”.
Former Cuban leader Raul Castro, who was indicted by the US in May, has also backed the plan.
Trump administration officials, notably Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have repeatedly said that economic reforms could ease Washington’s pressure campaign against the island. But the US did not immediately respond to the latest moves.
Meanwhile, US Vice President JD Vance was asked on Thursday if the Trump administration would now turn its sights to Cuba after reaching a memorandum of understanding to end the war on Iran.
Trump has repeatedly floated both military attacks and what he has described as a “friendly takeover” of Cuba.
Vance responded that Washington wanted Cubans to be “happy and successful”.
“We’re actually talking to the Cuban government right now about how they could change their ways to change that,” Vance said.
“If they make smart decisions, we’re going to have a much better relationship with that island.”
Well, I just mean that they accurately describe economic activity. Like Keynesians all think that market interventions will produce totally different outcomes than they actually do, and Marxists don't even correctly understand what value is. I don't agree with the ancap political stuff that usually gets wedded to Austrian economics. I just think it's the only "school" that actually understands the topic and I find it depressing that so many countries run on the basis of total nonsense.
It's more accurate, but Austrian school of economics does have the major flaw that it doesn't approve of retaliatory market manipulations against a hostile power. It's too absolutist.
The American school of economics I would consider far superior, its zeal for a free market economy that also embraced protectionism and national interests first made the US into the economic juggernaut at the turn of the 20th century
With the death of communism, she'll only be able shit up threads by fantasizing about abortion even though there isn't enough vodka in all of Russia to make a man to want to fuck her, which is why she claims to be a "lesbian".
I have a feeling they will get an influx of "trade" with many countries that wanna larp as commie, like Scandinavia, Vietnam, China, but most of it will just be cultural trade meant to prop Cuba back up into a position so they can isolate themselves again.
Back then they had Castro's charisma to convince them, plus the revolution was still fresh in the mind and they had the backing of the USSR. No such saviors now. Diaz-Canel is a charisma black hole and they are losing their young population at record speed. It's going to be very difficult to swerve back to early 20th century Marxism-Leninism if they open relation with the US.
A month or so ago I was sent a copy of Cigar Aficionado with DeSantis on the cover. I think I tossed it at some point but I did leaf through it a bit. He did say he doesn't smoke Cubans just out of respect for the shit they endure from their government.
Cuban cigars are fine. They're not particularly impressive though. As other people noted, when the embargo was announced, all the talent jumped ship and the factories were nationalized. This is why you see two versions of the same brand.
I have a Cuban cigar sitting in a humidor somewhere. I brought a few in legally during Obama.
Turns out the solution to Cuban communism was a roach bringing along a band of Irish pinkoes who steal electricity by playing for champagne socialists resulting in people dying in an hospital
>Be a dog shocking CCP Agent
>visit communist shithole
>act like any libshit communist does while there
>communist shithole decides not to be communist anymore and upgrades to regular shithole
Hasan Piker is an embarrassment to communists everywhere.
Back then they had Castro's charisma to convince them, plus the revolution was still fresh in the mind and they had the backing of the USSR. No such saviors now. Diaz-Canel is a charisma black hole and they are losing their young population at record speed. It's going to be very difficult to swerve back to early 20th century Marxism-Leninism if they open relation with the US.
If interested, highly recommend No Free Lunch - Food and Revolution in Cuba Today, by Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott. Came out in 1986, available used on Amazon. Still believe it's one of the best depictions of the Cuban food system around.
So, I know I am mentally dented, but help me out: japan praised cuba for its implementation of communism and now that the communist people is bending the knee to free market, he won't have anything to point to in praise of Commy shit?
I for one hope for an influx of Cuban shitposters to the wider free Internet. The first time I tried to read the Sharty posting style I thought of my college Spanish professor, because she'd regularly pause in the middle of teaching Castilian Spanish to talk about the gutter-ass way people would say the same phrase in Cuba.
I for one hope for an influx of Cuban shitposters to the wider free Internet. The first time I tried to read the Sharty posting style I thought of my college Spanish professor, because she'd regularly pause in the middle of teaching Castilian Spanish to talk about the gutter-ass way people would say the same phrase in Cuba.
With the death of communism, she'll only be able shit up threads by fantasizing about abortion even though there isn't enough vodka in all of Russia to make a man to want to fuck her, which is why she claims to be a "lesbian".
Lmfao communism is dead once and for all. And no, "communist" china or vietnam don't count since they only retain the label to appeal to delusional Western tankies. Western tankies who, by the way, will soon go down the meat grinder.
Any country that tries to be "communist" to the truest meaning of the word ends up dying.
The only "communist" countries that survive are the countries that adapt and rework their "communism" into something workable and pretty capitalistic and only using communism as some sort of aesthetic front.
It's basically natural selection.
In the further future, thr only surviving "communist" nations are countries that abandon communism and adapt themselves into an economy and system of government that is functional and workable enough to make their countries thrive.
It pretty much is the last true holdout at this point in history.
As other posters have noted already, countries like China and Vietnam don't count anymore because 1) people there are not starving to death en masse and 2) people are not getting executed for "political divergences" (much).
Like, damn, bruh, do you even communist? NK has you totally death-mogged.
Cuban cigars are fine. They're not particularly impressive though. As other people noted, when the embargo was announced, all the talent jumped ship and the factories were nationalized. This is why you see two versions of the same brand.
I tend to agree. For me it's not about which one is better. I think all of the different cigar producing countries have their own character. For Cubans, there are some brands that are great, others that are not so great. I tend to prefer Dominican, but there is something about H. Upmann that I've never tasted in other cigars. Same with Por Larrañaga. Cuaba is dogshit and Cohiba is alright, but for $100 USD per stick? I'd rather get 8 Arturo Fuente sticks or just any other Cuban brand.
