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Cuba to allow nationals living abroad to own businesses on island, NBC News reports

Cuba’s new policy lets nationals abroad invest and own businesses, aiming to revive tourism, mining, and infrastructure amid a severe energy crisis, officials said.

  • Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga disclosed in an exclusive NBC News interview that Cuba will allow nationals living abroad to invest in the private sector and own businesses on the island, announcing it Monday night.
  • Facing a three-month fuel shortage, Cuban President Miguel Díaz‑Canel said no petroleum shipments have arrived, causing blackouts and postponed surgeries amid an island-wide energy crisis.
  • Fraga, Cuba's deputy prime minister and minister of foreign trade and investment, told NBC News, 'This extends beyond the commercial sphere', noting investments include large infrastructure projects; the Miami Herald first reported the news citing an unnamed source.
  • Allowing diaspora ownership could attract investment from Cuban nationals living abroad and foreign companies to revive tourism and mining, while Cuba confirmed talks with the Trump administration amid halted fuel shipments.
  • Three months without fuel shipments have prompted rare violent protests, including clashes in Moron, northern Cuba, while Fraga said the U.S. 'blockade' deprives Cuba of financing, technology and markets.
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The blackouts and lack of fuel, the latent possibility of a social outburst, the pressures of Trump, dramatically limit the initiative

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For decades, Cuba kept its countrymen living abroad out of its own economy. Now, the vice-premier announces "free business relationship with US companies".

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Havana., Cubans living abroad and their descendants will be able to invest in the island, announced the Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Oscar Pérez-Oliva, in an interview with the U.S. television network NBC released yesterday, and later reiterated to the press and evening on local television.

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NBC San Diego broke the news in San Diego, United States on Monday, March 16, 2026.
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