Havana, June 24, 2026 – Cuba’s highest governing bodies have advanced a landmark set of economic and social adjustments that will soon be made public in full, wrapping up a years-long process of refining the island nation’s development framework.
The Council of Ministers is scheduled to hold a formal analysis of the proposed transformations this week, building on a multi-stage review process that already incorporated input from two key national bodies: the Political Bureau of Cuba’s Communist Party, and participants in the Extraordinary Plenum of the Party’s Central Committee. The reforms also received debate and endorsement during the 3rd Extraordinary Session of the 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, ensuring broad institutional input before finalization.
These adjustments are framed as a deliberate, sovereign policy choice for Cuba, emerging from a decades-long initiative to update and optimize the Cuban Economic Model. That process was first launched in 2011, with major deepening of reform efforts kicking off in 2021 as the country addressed shifting global and domestic economic conditions. Once the Council of Ministers concludes its final analysis, the full text of all approved economic and social transformations will be released publicly to bring transparency to the country’s latest policy evolution.