Cuba leader admits 'urgent changes' needed to overcome crisis (opens in new tab)

"The situation calls for urgent and necessary changes," Diaz-Canel told the Communist Party party's politburo in remarks broadcast on Thursday, Diaz-Canel was speaking at a meeting called to fast-track reforms aimed at boosting the private sector and attracting more capital from millions of Cubans who have fled the crisis abroad. The proposals are part of a desperate, eleventh-hour bid to stave off economic collapse in the face of unprecedented US pressure. Diaz-Canel cited China and Vietnam ...