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During this window the government announced its largest economic reform package since 1959, released more than two thousand prisoners, and faced rare street protests over blackouts that ended in arrests. Reporting also covers speculation about who follows the current leadership and the position of the private sector.
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The instrument set widened during this window from the long-standing embargo to an executive order targeting fuel supply, designations of the military conglomerate GAESA and the Moa nickel operation, withdrawal by foreign shipping and hotel groups under threat of secondary sanctions, a Supreme Court opening for expropriation claims, and an indictment of a former Cuban president.
Cuba's grid failed repeatedly during this window, at times island-wide, after the government reported its fuel reserves exhausted. Reporting covers rationing plans, closed hotels and suspended flights, uncollected refuse in Havana, hospital supply failures, and United Nations warnings of humanitarian collapse. Whether the cause is the US fuel blockade or long-term under-investment is itself contested.
Arrests after blackout protests, political prisoners used as bargaining chips and a party that permits no alternative describe control maintained by coercion, not consent.
CubaThe largest economic liberalisation since 1959 and the release of thousands of prisoners are genuine movement -- and the pressure campaign gives hardliners the argument that opening invites attack.
CubaWhat is called repression is a state defending itself against infiltration, sabotage and an openly declared campaign to remove its government -- self-determination is the issue, not dissent.
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ChinaCubaDuring this window the government announced its largest economic reform package since 1959, released more than two thousand prisoners, and faced rare street protests over blackouts that ended in arrests. Reporting also covers speculation about who follows the current leadership and the position of the private sector.