Cuba Enacts Sweeping Free-Market Economic Reforms

The Communist Party-backed legislation opens key sectors to private investment and loosens state controls.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel framed the changes as urgent to alleviate chronic shortages and blackouts.

The United States has tightened its embargo, pushing the island into its worst crisis since the Cold War.

Some Cubans remain skeptical, noting that the changes come with continued political repression.