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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 20 September 2019

Cuba to tap “arsenal” of Special Period experiences

Cuba is not facing a second ‘Special Period’, President Miguel Díaz-Canel insisted during two televised appearances on 10 and 11 September to announce the most serious fuel crisis in the country since the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s. But speaking during a visit to the westernmost province of Pinar del Río on 16 September, Díaz-Canel cautioned Cubans that some of the measures implemented during the subsequent ‘Special Period’ would need to be “dusted off” and that “austerity and belt-tightening” were the order of the day.

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