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Cuba’s economy needs “urgent changes” to overcome a major crisis intensified by a US oil blockade, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a speech to Communist Party leaders broadcast on Thursday.

“The situation calls for urgent and necessary changes,” Diaz-Canel told the party’s politburo in his frankest admission yet of the need for an overhaul of the country’s communist model.

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