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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.”
At risk of being a party-pooper, did they actually talk about what these reforms will entail? Is it going to truly be a liberalized market or is it going to be like the PRC's “I Can't Believe it's Not Fascism” system where businesses are allowed to function, but anything bigger than a corner store has to be owned by a party official who will be stripped of ownership if he ever goes against the party interest? It's still better than full-blown Leninism or Maoism, but it still tends to be more of a economic paper tiger than an actual success in making a better country.
At risk of being a party-pooper, did they actually talk about what these reforms will entail? Is it going to truly be a liberalized market or is it going to be like the PRC's “I Can't Believe it's Not Fascism” system where businesses are allowed to function, but anything bigger than a corner store has to be owned by a party official who will be stripped of ownership if he ever goes against the party interest? It's still better than full-blown Leninism or Maoism, but it still tends to be more of a economic paper tiger than an actual success in making a better country.
So I’m not the only person seeing the likely pathway of this proposal. We'll see if Diaz goes straight to Xi-type nonsense once things look slightly better or if he at least tries to play the Dengist reformer to the end. I still don't think it will actually fix anything in the long run though, because even half a century of western trade and “special economic zones” has failed to actually make the PRC stop being a corrupt dictatorship like Nixon's friends asserted would happen.
So I’m not the only person seeing the likely pathway of this proposal. We'll see if Diaz goes straight to Xi-type nonsense once things look slightly better or if he at least tries to play the Dengist reformer to the end. I still don't think it will actually fix anything in the long run though, because even half a century of western trade and “special economic zones” has failed to actually make the PRC stop being a corrupt dictatorship like Nixon's friends asserted would happen.
The US has dirt on the Castros. Its been in months long discussions with the Castro family and the current puppet president. I assume this is part of a bigger picture / plan.
At risk of being a party-pooper, did they actually talk about what these reforms will entail? Is it going to truly be a liberalized market or is it going to be like the PRC's “I Can't Believe it's Not Fascism” system where businesses are allowed to function, but anything bigger than a corner store has to be owned by a party official who will be stripped of ownership if he ever goes against the party interest? It's still better than full-blown Leninism or Maoism, but it still tends to be more of a economic paper tiger than an actual success in making a better country.
Cuba has been in this place before after the fall of the USSR when it could not longer be subsidized by a great power. I don't really want to get too much into details and don't want to make this into a personal journal, but suffice to say that my dad was at one point deeply involved in some negotiations with post Cold War Cuba, to the point where he sat on a table right next to Castro on behalf of some Mexican clients he was working with.
During the 90s, Cuba was in a period of severe crisis similar to the one today, and to make a long story short, they partially opened up to foreign investment, so long as Castro got the final say on every decision and the government had a hand in all industries. Cubataco (state owned tobacco monopoly), for example, rebranded to Habanos S.A. and is not partially owned by European investors. Canada and Spain made similar investments into the country. At that point, there were also not too publicized talks with the Clinton administration to open up phone lines between the US and Cuba. It was said during this time that Clinton had a special shadow Secretary of State just for Cuba.
Anyway, long story short, Cuban exiles got wind of what was happening and pretty much sabotaged the process, which ultimately led to the 1996 incident and end of negotiations. The embargo once again became a bipartisan tradition (especially since being against it was a guarantee of losing Florida), and we've spent the last 3 decades seeing Cuba renege of some deals, renationalize, and find new sugar daddies to keep them afloat. Obviously Russia can't do it nowadays, and neither can China, so they influenced Venezuela and other Latin American countries into a leftist alliance that is currently being demolished election after election.
I'm pretty sure what is happening is similar to post Soviet Cuba but now they don't really have an out. Russia can't project power outside of its own borders, China has its neverending housing crash, Europe can barely invest in itself, and Latin America is currently shifting rightward with the only exceptions (Mexico and probably Brazil) being too weak to really do anything, especially since the pressure from America and USMCA renegotiations.
It really depends on what happens in the coming years. I maintain that if the embargo is finally lifted and Cuba can trade with America, it'll be extremely hard to go back to traditional Marxism-Leninism. Especially since they don't have the charisma of the Castro brothers to convince them to maintain the system as it currently stands.
It really depends on what happens in the coming years. I maintain that if the embargo is finally lifted and Cuba can trade with America, it'll be extremely hard to go back to traditional Marxism-Leninism. Especially since they don't have the charisma of the Castro brothers to convince them to maintain the system as it currently stands
People said the same thing about Communist China when Deng talked about moving away from Mao's pants-on-head retardation in favor of trying to be friendly with the west, but now we have Xi trying to make himself Emperor Mao II and restart the Cold War through BRICS. Either the Castro family's regime truly collapses and stops idolizing them and Che, or this cycle is going to turn as it did once before.
People said the same thing about Communist China when Deng talked about moving away from Mao's pants-on-head retardation in favor of trying to be friendly with the west, but now we have Xi trying to make himself Emperor Mao II and restart the Cold War through BRICS. Either the Castro's regime truly collapses and stops idolizing them and Che, or this cycle is going to turn as it did once before.
That is China, this is Cuba. China, for all its faults, still has the geographical and (had) the demographic predisposition to become one of the great powers of history. Cuba has always survived as a vassal or client of another country. First with Spain, then with the US, then with Russia, and lastly in parasitic relationship with leftist Latin American governments.
Cuba doesn't have an industry, it doesn't have a modern power grid, it doesn't have food sufficiency, and it doesn't really have the military might to expand and get them unless it ties itself to another country to do it for them. Mind you, BRICS apparently doesn't either if the last four years have told us anything. Cuba is at a crossroads right now. Who it decides to build relationships with is a choice they'll have to make, and it'll impact them for another generation.
For a fun note, Cuba use to be THE main sugar plantation island of the carribean until the filthy gommies declared sugar capitalist and got rid of the plantations to own America or something, any ways it means that if Cuba does go free market theres a giant opportunity for some one to start rolling out sugar plantations again and make a nice shiney peso out of it.
They really don't have a choice anymore, but it's to late for them to really revive the country.
It's said that as much as 1 in 4 people left the island in the last five years. That's incredible considering that there are no private boats on the island so that people can't escape. Pretty soon there will be basically nobody left but old timers.
The only thing that can save them now from basically total depopulation would be to open everything completely and beg for expats to come back, which isn't going to happen. Doing half measures will probably lead to people having an easier time fleeing which they will do.
At risk of being a party-pooper, did they actually talk about what these reforms will entail? Is it going to truly be a liberalized market or is it going to be like the PRC's “I Can't Believe it's Not Fascism” system where businesses are allowed to function, but anything bigger than a corner store has to be owned by a party official who will be stripped of ownership if he ever goes against the party interest? It's still better than full-blown Leninism or Maoism, but it still tends to be more of a economic paper tiger than an actual success in making a better country.
Yeah, Ho Chi Minh deliberately killed off all the hardcore tankies who might cause problems by sending them to the front lines as unsupported light infantry during the Tet Offensive, so by the time things settled down and it came time to actually build a country instead of just fighting a war they had absolutely zero influence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
TL;DR: Soviet citizen who wrote books about what a repressive hellhole the USSR was. Naturally, being a hardcore Commie, Safir finds the truth to be vile and offensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
TL;DR: Soviet citizen who wrote books about what a repressive hellhole the USSR was. Naturally, being a hardcore Commie, Safir finds the truth to be vile and offensive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
TL;DR: Soviet citizen who wrote books about what a repressive hellhole the USSR was. Naturally, being a hardcore Commie, Safir finds the truth to be vile and offensive.
Tankie faggots often accuse Solzhenitsyn of writing fiction, twisting quotes to make it appear like he was just making shit up.
But the reality is that he shared a lot of stories from Gulag survivors that of course could not be verified, because secrecy was built into the Soviet prison system naturally.
The Gulag Archipelago is probably the best nonfiction work ever written honestly.
That may be an understatement. Old Alex had Ukrainian ancestry, served in the Red Army during the “Great Patriotic War,” got sent to the gulags because he decried abuses committed on Stalin's urging during said war, and still asserted himself to be a devoutly Orthodox and patriotic Russian who generally wanted a return to the Imperial System rather than some bleeding-heart liberal hoping to bring about faggotry and child drag shows like Safir constantly uses his name to imply. Best they have to assert he was lying are claims made by his (pro-Soviet) ex-wife who was trotted out by the regime to discredit him.
As for Safir herself, the old hag is that particularly infuriating brand of tankie that loves to posture about how “based” Eastern Bloc Communists are and how degenerate capitalists are, even though anyone can point to the massive trail showing that the degenerate neo-Marxist movement in the West was fueled by the KGB to undermine us and create an avenue for revolutionary movements. I don't know if I hate “Those nightmare regimes were not real communism” Ancoms or “That was real communism and it was based” tankies more, but they both suck.
According to the man himself he was arrested for sending letters to another friend in the military complaining about the situation at the front, not widely blasting The Boss. He made the mistake of talking about military matters in a letter that would obviously be read by censors during a period of spy paranoia.
edit: stop cyberbullying my spicy babushka shitposter! >
