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Economic Reform Shock: Cuba’s National Assembly approved nearly 200 free-market reforms, including private banking under Central Bank oversight, allowing foreign investors to buy stakes in state firms, ending the state monopoly on foreign trade, and enabling joint-stock conversions—aimed at easing a severe crisis worsened by a US oil blockade. Tourism & Investment: The package explicitly targets tourism and other sectors, loosening rules for private businesses and letting Cubans abroad invest and develop tourist infrastructure, though implementation timelines weren’t given. Public Skepticism: Diaz-Canel and PM Manuel Marrero framed the changes as “urgent” survival steps that don’t renounce socialism, but many Cubans are skeptical—especially as power outages and shortages continue. US Pressure Backdrop: Multiple reports tie the reforms to escalating US sanctions and pressure, with tourism already taking a hit as airlines and hotel operators scale back.

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