HAVANA — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday accused the United States of hypocrisy for promoting private enterprise on the island while imposing new restrictions against privately-owned Cuban businesses.
Díaz-Canel hosted a podcast with Prime Minister Manuel Marrero to discuss the implementation of an economic reform package approved by parliament in June that gives private enterprise unprecedented latitude . the package moves Cuba toward the kind of economic opening the United States has demanded for decades — even as Washington maintains sanctions that Havana describes as an energy blockade Although Díaz-Canel and Marrero reiterated that the Cuban government does not intend to embrace capitalism. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Cuba is a “failed state. President Joe Biden for small Cuban private entrepreneurs to open accounts in U.S. banks.
“We are not going to stop,” Díaz-Canel said, rejecting assertions by U.S.
At the same time, he rejected the latest U.S. sanctions, which this week revoked the permission previously granted by former U.S.
