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Under Pressure from Trump, Cuban Leader Calls for 'Urgent' Economic Change
President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba called on Monday for an "urgent" transformation of the country's economic model, according to Cuban state media, as Cuba confronts an oil blockade by the Trump administration that has deepened a humanitarian crisis on the island.
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Regime Change in Cuba Appeals to Trump but Carries Risks
With a U. S. chokehold pushing Cuba's economy toward potential collapse, President Trump is hoping to reach a deal with the island's communist government to avoid chaos even if it means the leadership change long sought by many of his close allies has to wait.
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Venezuela's acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure investors
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday signed a law that opens the nation's oil sector to privatization, reversing a tenet of the self-proclaimed socialist movement that has ruled the country for more than two decades.
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fortune.com
Before Maduro ouster, Nobel Prize winner said Venezuela has a $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize over 500 companies and undo socialist 'disaster' | Fortune
Months before the U. S. military arrested Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, opposition leader María Corina Machado called for what she described as the most ambitious economic transformation in the nation's history -- a sweeping privatization aimed at reversing his policies and what she calls "the disaster this socialist system has wrought.
