Cuba's Bold Free-Market Turn Fails to Convince US It's Ready to Change

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : So much of what Cuba is proposing remains vague, said Ricardo Torres, a Cuban economist and professor at American University in Washington, and much will depend on the norms and regulations that underpin the changes.
47% : " If President Miguel Díaz-Canel's government, for example, ends price controls before putting a social safety net in place, it could be catastrophic for those at the bottom of the social ladder, Torres said.
46% : And in many ways they go far beyond anything that Washington might have hoped for, according to Pedro Monreal, a Cuban economist who worked for years with the United Nations.
41% : While blackouts were chronic before the renewed hostilities, the UN warns they're now pushing the island of 10 million people to the brink of a humanitarian crisis.

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