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Cuba Enacts Reforms, Guarantees Public Services, Opens Foreign Fuel Market

7/31/2026

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President Miguel Diaz-Canel said reforms will not privatize healthcare, science, culture or strategic services while Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz announced a foreign fuel venture authorizing 200 firms to wholesale distribute it.
Lawmakers passed an agriculture law streamlining land-use rights and approved ten measures easing restrictions for car-rental firms and eco-tourism.
Lawmakers created a regulated Economic Development Zone for a wholly foreign-owned health-tourism company, with implementation described as gradual.

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President Miguel Diaz-Canel said reforms will not privatize healthcare, science, culture or strategic services while Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz announced a foreign fuel venture authorizing 200 firms to wholesale distribute it.
Lawmakers passed an agriculture law streamlining land-use rights and approved ten measures easing restrictions for car-rental firms and eco-tourism.
Lawmakers created a regulated Economic Development Zone for a wholly foreign-owned health-tourism company, with implementation described as gradual.