Share Share In an attempt to revive and transform its COVID-stricken economy, Cuba will significantly expand its private sector, authorities announced. The long-awaited change in economic policy was approved by the government Council of Ministers last week, according to the Communist Party newspaper, Granma, and made public by the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó, on February 6. “That private work continues to develop is the objective of this reform,” she stated, announcing that the government would lift most restrictions on small businesses in Cuba to help “free the productive forces” of the private sector. The reform is “an important step to increase employment,” Minister of the Economy Alejandro Gil added on Twitter.