{"id":11402,"date":"2026-06-18T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:20:00","slug":"cuba-is-further-opening-its-economy-to-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11402","title":{"rendered":"Cuba is further opening its economy to the market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba has approved a package of economic reforms to expand the economy of the market, amid a deep economic crisis and mounting pressure from the U.S..<\/p>\n<h2>Reforms aimed at investment and growth<\/h2>\n<p>According to <strong>state television<\/strong>, the highest body of the ruling <strong>Communist Party of Cuba (CPC)<\/strong> approved new proposals for <strong>economic and social transformation<\/strong>, following a plenary session of the <strong>Central Committee<\/strong>, during which approximately 20 reforms were examined.<\/p>\n<p>The measures, promoted by the government of President <strong>Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel<\/strong>, call for a greater opening of the economy to <b>private <\/b>investments, attracting <strong>capital<\/strong> from Cubans living abroad, and a gradual reduction in the size of the <strong>public sector<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Former President <strong>Ra\u00fal Castro<\/strong> also voiced his support for the reforms; despite being 95 years old, continues to wield significant <strong>political influence<\/strong> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>These decisions come at a time when <strong>Cuba<\/strong> is facing a prolonged <strong>economic crisis<\/strong>, while at the same time pressure from the <strong>United States<\/strong> on the government of the island is intensifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba approved a package of economic reforms aimed at expanding the market economy, amid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}