'Like China': Cubans welcome reforms but exiles remain skeptical (opens in new tab)

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 Cuba's fuel imports in January, "heard nothing." But Carlos Dibus, one of millions of Cubans who have fled abroad, was listening intently. He...