Havana, June 19, 2026 (AFP) - 'Like China': Cubans welcome reforms but exiles remain skeptical

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2026-06-20

The revolution was televised -- but many Cubans missed it because they had no electricity. On Thursday, with a US blockade throttling its power supply, Cuba's communist government announced the most radical free-market reforms since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Soledad, whose Havana neighborhood of Jesus Maria was struggling through yet another 24-hour-plus power cut -- a feature of life in the capital since President Donald Trump cut off Cub......

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