Cuban lawmakers unanimously approved sweeping reforms backed by the Communist Party and former leader Raul Castro that would privatize a vast swath of the country's socialist economy in a bid to survive punishing US sanctions

Cuba's regime is finally admitting what every failed socialist experiment proves: without private property and real enterprise there is no prosperity. The dictatorship is desperate, not enlightened.

reminder that any country is free to trade with Cuba but doesn't because they don't pay their bills oil is the only complete embargo they've got regardless of what the MSM spin is & @grok can confirm it

In a bid to survive punishing dictatorship and self inflicted economic collapse after decades of deep seeded corruption. Fixed that for you @Reuters

Try this version for accuracy: “The Cuban Communist Party allowed its members in charge of Cuba’s failed economy to implement economic reforms that will bid them time while keeping money flowing into the regime’s pockets. The reforms are also a way to bypass current US sanctions to GESA by camouflaging the national side of the inversions as “private.” Sixty seven years of history are proof that the Cuban regime enticements don’t end well for investors and the Cuban people are the only ones who never benefit from them. These reforms are not the exception. The Cuban people have lived, contrary to the communist propaganda, in the utmost misery for decades. Yet only now, that the regime’s own income is threatened by the US sanctions to GAESA, they implement these reforms. The regime doesn’t care about Cubans, they never have; the money in their pockets is all that matters to them!

And here come all the Jewish Oligarchs to buy up everything at pennies on the dollar, like they did in Russia at the end of the USSR. I see what this is all about.....you'll see!

I am afraid it won’t save them. The US won’t stop until Cuba becomes under their total control. They will always have more demands.

Its called Capitalism. Grow your Sovereign Country and Let The People Prosper off of the Economy. Thats exactly what America wants you to do. Come out of your Cave of Suppressing the Citizens of Cuba. Its all about the treatment of the Cuban People. Be Normal.. Dick-taters are a thing of the past.

Fake reforms to win time. Cubans want and need freedom now.

@JasonPoblete Do you hear the end ? With the COMMUNISM everything, without Nothing. Total control of the Government and the PCC . No trust, No Guarantees.

How come? I'm sure if they give Socialism one more try, it'll work as promised!

Il n'y a pas de privatisation. Il faut lire les documents avec plus de sérieux.

We need freedom and democracy, not fake reforms

Just like Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union that created the Oligarchy. It will be interesting to see how things are divvied up this time.

Reuters, you forgot to say “Patria o Muerte, Venceremos” at the end of your statement you’re parroting Granma word by word

Once again, the communists of Cuba are demonstrating that the only ones who blockade the Cuban people are the murderous Castro-Canel dictatorship, the only ones who have forbidden the people from prospering, and they have been doing so for 67 years, lying to the world by blaming the US, when the only ones who control and open the floodgates are the genocidal communists in power.

Now we know why the CIA Chief visited Cuba last month.

They(the same people) have been approving unanimously the opposite for more than 60 years.

Those are fake reforms just to win more time ! Cuban Dictatorship always lies, like with President Obama deal ! Cuban people don't want more communism ! The want Freedom!

@JasonPoblete Lawmakers @Reuters?! Pls, they’re lawbreakers thugs who subjugate an entire nation to extreme poverty and imprisons, kills, or exiles dissent. It’s time for MSM to call a spade a spade, they’ve been in power also bc MSM and democracies whitewash them.

Yet, non of these if backed by its own constitution…,so, I don’t know who will (still) trust this dictatorship…and invest there.

commies scratching their heads asking "how is adopting a worse economic system supposed to help them survive???"

Will they rip off intellectual property like the PRC?

goddamn, gusano Cubans act so much like Israelis with they way they must control the narrative and framing.

Same people’s Same problems!🤬 US 🇺🇸 military humanitarian intervention NOW!!😢 Please..!! 🙏

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!

So, they have proven us that socialism, communism, Marxism DOESN’T WORK!

castro's destoyed the economy, not the us lmaoooo

Sorry the Cuban mercenaries enabling Cuba's exploitation of Venezuela's corrupt dictator got killed, and that sweet arrangement is no longer propping up the failed ideology and corrupt government of Communist Cuba. Never bet on Marxism. Cope about it.

#Illegal, unilateral, coercive measures imposed by the US mafia-state, NOT sanctions. The illegal US #siege of Cuba is an act of war! Legal sanctions against a country can be imposed only by the UN!

@elerneRX These rats have blood on their hands, many of them have to face justice first! We don’t want them in power! I, a Cuban exile refuse to accept anything less! Down with the Castroist Regime! 🐀🤮 The Rat Infestation Must Be Eradicated From The Face Of The Earth! @DiazCanelB SINGAO

Donald Trump is a heinously stupid child rapist and everyone around the world suffers for it

Time to invest in tobacco.

“Businesses in Cuba would for the first time be permitted to hire more than 100 employees. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, would also be allowed to hold multiple private businesses - another first.”

Cuban legislators always approve laws unanimously. That’s why It is a totalitarian regime.