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A decade ago, in a stunningly magnificent obeisance to the past, in the performance of the "three kneelings and nine kowtows" (三跪九叩) to the ancestors (even those not yet quite dead), the Cuban Party apparatus adopted its Conceptualización del modelo económico y social Cubano de desarrollo socialista"(discussed here in a CPE Background Brief). That is, to badly misquote Marx, the specter that is haunting Cuba. A spector that, in 2026 was neither exorcised nor confronted but one into whose thrall the state and the Party appear to have been consumed.
The Conceptualización was most notable as an retrenchment that effectively paused the movements toward reform or development, within a Marxist Leninist framework, of the Cuban economic-political model, and underscored its alignment with the operating model first put forward by the 1st Cuban Communist Party Congress in 1976. To suggest disappointment among those who remained committed to the Cuban Marxist-Leninist model but sought its reform to conform to the then current realities of the historical stage of development in which Cuba found itself was an understatement. But the elites, officially at least, recoiled at the possibility of "newfangled" (and mostly "oriental") change--and they certainly would have nothing to do with markets or Asian style Marxist Leninist operational structures. That turn to markets, even well managed Marxist-Leninist markets, was considered a direct route toward the corruption of Marxism and with it the undoing of the Leninist project as they saw it. As late as 2012, Fidel Castro made it clear in his "Reflections" that it was the model elaborate by Erich Honecker (East Germany) rather than that elaborated by Deng Xiaoping (PRC) that was the apex model of a properly organized Marxist Leninist system (Fidel Castro on Deng Xiaoping and Erich Honecker--Understanding the Foundations of Cuban Political and Economic Policy; "More than anything else, these short reflections are likely to be as close as we will come to understanding the reasons that Cuba finds itself in its particular current predicament. It is one based perhaps on a nostalgia for what could have been, East Germany, and a fear and loathing for what may be: Chinese style" markets Marxism).
Fidel Castro had consistently viewed Deng's opening up with substantial suspicion (e.g., The UnRepentant: Fidel Castro Confronts Cuban Globalization, Law at the End of the Day, Sept. 15, 2007), a position that was hard wired into the State and Party apparatus conceptual cahes (again in 2019, and now 2026) and especially its insistently Soviet ideological expression--not just Soviet in sensibilty and outlook but an ossified Soviet-ism imperious to the realities of the flow of time (among other things). This suspicion, and its architecture was not shared to the same degree by his brother (e.g., On the Anniversary of the Attack on the Moncada Barracks: Cuba Moves Forward towards its Chinese Future, Law at the End of the Day, July 27, 2007). The result was, at least within the economic sectors over which the military was given authority, a more or less (by Cuban standards anyway) vibrantly markets ready State owned enterprise sector metastasizing under the leadership of the military (to managed a sizeable chunk of the formal Cuban economy) and a stubbornly Soviet style orthodox central planning apparatus within the State sector, one that viewed markets with great suspicion and was loathe to tolerate it except at the margins and especially during periods of emergency.
2026 has seen the flowering of catastrophe for the Cuban economy, its infrastructure and whatever passes for its formal economy. It is a crisis of its own making, one that makes the current version of Cuban Stalinist Marxist Leninism particularly vulnerable to the transactional engagements with the Trump Administration's America First Policy as applied by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, someone with a substantially more refined interest in the affairs of Cuba. In times of crisis like this, the Cuban State-Party tends to move quickly especially with respect to concessions around the core of its Soviet operational structures. These have tended to please the intelligentsia and policy makers outside of Cuba, especially in the US, and cost the government virtually nothing in terms of pressure to effect even the changes that its own Marxist-Leninist techno-bureaucrats have been urging for years. That well worn pattern appears again to some extent as the Cuban State has appeared to suggest a greater tolerance of markets based activity, but again only around the edges and in ways that do not threaten the core of its State sector (or for that matter, the business of the military through GAESA).
On the other hand, in the way that the (in retrospect tragic) State visit of President Obama was connected to the political retrenchment that was the "Conceptualización del modelo económico y social Cubano de desarrollo socialista" delightfully described at the time by Ann Louise Bardach, "Backlash in Cuba," for Politico Magazine, June 10 2016 (and reposted by Arch Ritter to his blog site: here), so it appears that, in mirror reverse, the current state of US-Cuba relations produces the same sort of reaction--retenchment ideologically with asensation of reform. In the face of the Trump Administration's America First Policy applied in a more robust way to the Caribbean region (starting perhaps with the end of the leadership of Mr Maduro in Venezuela) and no focused on Cuba (here, here), the Cuban State-Party apparatus has again produced what amounts to an updated clone of the 2016 Conceptualización del modelo económico y social Cubano de desarrollo socialista" now with a few marginal tidbits to suggest the need to appease the architects (on the outside) of the current crisis (understanding of course that the Cuban State itself has been the master of its own disasters for quite a long period of time). That cloned and updated retrenchment (including in the choices of quotations from Fidel Castro that now aligns with present political need) has been distributed under the title Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno (2026). So. . . the appearance of changes at the margins and a hearty reaffirmation of the permanence of a 1970s ideological position--this time without the seemingly endless subsidies of the Soviet empire.
The Economic Program outlined consists of a 10 point plan, which in the style of such things in liberal democratic as well as Marxist-Leninist techno-bureaucracies sound like vague exhortations to generalized goals of sorts:
Objetivo General 1: Propiciar un entorno macroeconómico que favorezca la actividad productiva y el incremento de los ingresos externos.
Objetivo General 2: Incrementar y diversificar los ingresos externos del país.
Objetivo General 3: Incrementar la producción nacional, con énfasis en los alimentos.
Objetivo General 4: Transformar, modernizar y desarrollar el sistema empresarial cubano fortaleciendo el papel de la empresa estatal socialista, con énfasis en la integración entre todos los actores económicos.
Objetivo General 5: Avanzar en el perfeccionamiento de la gestión estratégica para el desarrollo territorial.
Objetivo General 6: Avanzar en el perfeccionamiento de la gestión de Gobierno, la Defensa y Seguridad Nacional.
Objetivo General 7: Consolidar y desarrollar las políticas sociales, garantizando la protección a personas, familias, hogares y comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad.
Objetivo General 8: Avanzar en la implementación de las directivas generales dirigidas a la prevención y reducción del delito, la corrupción, las ilegalidades y las indisciplinas sociales.
Objetivo General 9: Avanzar en la recuperación del Sistema Electroenergético Nacional, impulsando la soberanía energética.
Objetivo General 10: Gestionar la ciencia e innovación, los recursos naturales, la comunicación social y la transformación digital para impulsar las esferas de desarrollo sostenible.
General Objective 1: Foster a macroeconomic environment that favors productive activity and the growth of external revenues.
General Objective 2: Increase and diversify the country's external revenues.
General Objective 3: Increase national production, with an emphasis on food.
General Objective 4: Transform, modernize, and develop the Cuban enterprise system by strengthening the role of the socialist state enterprise, with an emphasis on integration among all economic actors.
General Objective 5: Advance the improvement of strategic management for territorial development.
General Objective 6: Advance the improvement of Government management, National Defense, and Security.
General Objective 7: Consolidate and develop social policies, guaranteeing protection for individuals, families, households, and communities in vulnerable situations.
General Objective 8: Advance the implementation of general directives aimed at the prevention and reduction of crime, corruption, illegalities, and social indiscipline.
General Objective 9: Advance the recovery of the National Electric Power System, driving energy sovereignty.
General Objective 10: Manage science and innovation, natural resources, social communication, and digital transformation to drive the spheres of sustainable development.
This works in good times; it lacks the clarity and intensity often required in times of crisis. None of this is new; much of it is a tease; and all of it lacks any effective pathways other than hope. And, indeed, at its core is the fundamental determination to re-embrace, with renewed vigor the core of the ideological choices, and their necessary consequences, that brought the Cuban State to its present situation:
La Conceptualización del Modelo Económico y Social Cubano, los Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social del Partido y la Revolución, el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo al 2030, el Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno, el Plan de la Economía Nacional y el Presupuesto del Estado para el 2026, constituyen los documentos rectores que rigen la dirección del desarrollo del país. La correcta comprensión de la naturaleza y funciones de cada documento y, sobre todo, de su interrelación, es crucial para evitar desviaciones en el logro de las metas previstas. [The Conceptualization of the Cuban Economic and Social Model, the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution, the National Development Plan through 2030, the Government’s Economic and Social Program, the National Economic Plan, and the State Budget for 2026 constitute the guiding documents that govern the direction of the country's development. A proper understanding of the nature and functions of each document—and, above all, of their interrelationship—is crucial to avoid deviations in the achievement of projected goals.] ( Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno (2026), Introduction)
Dressed up around operational reform, the suggestion that they will, after a decade or more, now properly approach the operationalization of the key documents of retrenchment (and get it right this time), is precisely what tends to be embraced by those looking for any sort of movement (even in the wrong direction) that suggests Cuban "cooperation" or "reform"--wprds that lose much of their usual meaning in this cntext. They suggest as well that it is the failure to properly understand these documents that is the cause (along with the American embargo) of the present state of catastrophe, or better put, the current State of Misery in which Cuba finds itself (on the Cuban State of Misery HERE). That is the tragedy. A pity really but it fits that patterns of response adopted in this early part of the 21st century. Lamentably, more the the same is precisely what is not now needed. Even if revolutionary transformations of the sort hungered for in some quarters would be disastrous as well.
And over all of this the ghost of Fidel Castro continues to haunt both State and Party--not revolutionary Fidel, but the Fidel that became the embodiment of the Stalinist turn in European Marxist-Leninism. Unlike his idol Erich Honecker, Fidel did not live to copy that fate of that fallen leader--extradition back to the place of his leadership and trial for his crimes cut short only by an advanced fatal illness. What happens to those others who remain is impossible to predict.
And thus: when on the edge of the abyss, consider jumping in. In this case the Cuban authorities appear well tempted to do just that, holding tightly onto a playbook scripted for the middle decades of the last century and utterly convinces that, at least within the national territory of Cuba, time has, indeed, stopped. And that may well be the final lesson for this variation of Caribbean Leninism born of a military revolution that sought to stop time at the moment of its triumph; only to discover that time stopped has another meaning; and in that they may, in time, come to the realization that Emily Dickinson suggested about such efforts:
A Clock stopped -
Not the Mantel's -
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing -
That just now dangled still -
An awe came on the Trinket!
The Figures hunched, with pain -
Then quivered out of Decimals -
Into Degreeless Noon -
It will not stir for Doctors -
This Pendulum of snow -
The Shopman importunes it -
While cool - concernless No -
Nods from the Gilded pointers -
Nods from Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him -
Cuba's clock, indeed, may well have stopped. That was the spector of an ossified Soviet Caribbean Marxism whose principal undoing was its unwillingness to understand what the Chinese Leninists have long known (and which was incomprehensible to the Soviets themselves)--that Marxist Leninism in inherently a temporally embedded theory grounded in the core premise of a progress through time along a socialist path toeard communism, and that the triumph of a revolution was not the end but the starting point.
The Introduction to the Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno (2026) follows below in the original Spanish and in a quick English translation. The picture which follows, also part of the Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno (2026) might best be savored with a garnish of irony.
Introducción
El Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno 2026 define la planificación e implementación para la gestión de crisis, el qué, el cómo y cuándo hacer, para reimpulsar la economía. Es la brújula, la hoja de ruta, el hilo conductor para alcanzar las necesarias transformaciones en el complejo escenario en el que se desempeña la economía.
Está elaborado, sobre la base de los documentos programáticos aprobados en el VII Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba y responde a distorsiones críticas, desequilibrios macroeconómicos internos, así como a impactos externos severos que amenazan la estabilidad y el cumplimiento de los objetivos del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social al 2030. A escala territorial se encuentra conectado con las Estrategias de Desarrollo Provinciales y Municipales.
La Conceptualización del Modelo Económico y Social Cubano, los Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social del Partido y la Revolución, el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo al 2030, el Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno, el Plan de la Economía Nacional y el Presupuesto del Estado para el 2026, constituyen los documentos rectores que rigen la dirección del desarrollo del país.
La fortaleza para el logro de los objetivos propuestos radica en la relación dialéctica, jerárquica y de complementariedad que existe entre estos documentos, como se detalla a continuación
La correcta comprensión de la naturaleza y funciones de cada documento y, sobre todo, de su interrelación, es crucial para evitar desviaciones en el logro de las metas previstas.
El Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno 2026 se ejecuta a partir de los recursos aprobados en el Plan de la Economía Nacional y el Presupuesto del Estado. Su materialización exige tanto la elaboración de políticas, como la actualización de lo aprobado, cuando corresponda, así como el diseño de escenarios para la búsqueda de las alternativas viables en el contexto actual.
El año 2026, ha comenzado con una marcada fractura en el orden global, y Estados Unidos refuerza la pretensión de reimplantar la Doctrina Monroe.
La agresión del gobierno de los Estados Unidos no es nueva y ha escalado progresivamente en los últimos años y de modo despiadado en las últimas semanas, al pretender bloquear absolutamente el suministro de
combustibles a nuestro país.
En este contexto y a partir de la modelación de diferentes escenarios, se aprobaron las “Directivas de Gobierno para enfrentar un desabastecimiento agudo de combustibles” con el objetivo de garantizar la vitalidad del país sin renunciar al desarrollo y minimizar el impacto
de las afectaciones a la población, potenciando el uso de los recursos endógenos, así como diversificando las vías para generar mayores ingresos en divisas.
Se viven tiempos diferentes, y en este sentido es impostergable hacer cosas diferentes.
La posposición del IX Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba, es un llamado al combate, es una oportunidad para buscar soluciones propias a nuestros problemas y mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población.
El Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno 2026 es resultado de:
1. El proceso de consulta, con el estudio y análisis a cada nivel, del Programa.
2. El estudio de otros documentos e intervenciones del Presidente de la República y el Primer Ministro.
3. El análisis de los documentos elaborados por la Comisión Económica y Social, sobre el informe del cumplimiento de los Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social del Partido y la Revolución, la evaluación del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social al 2030 (PNDES), así como la integración de este a los Lineamientos, que se presentarán en el próximo Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba.
4. El trabajo realizado por los diez grupos constituidos y dirigidos por los jefes de objetivos generales con representantes de la Comisión Económica del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba, organismos de la Administración Central del Estado, entidades, la Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba, expertos y los enlaces de la Secretaría del Consejo de Ministros.
5. Las recomendaciones realizadas por los miembros del Consejo de Estado, Órganos del Estado, Consejo de Ministros, Gobernadores, Grupo Económico del Gobierno, así como de un grupo de expertos y académicos.
En su elaboración se ratifica el enfoque de dirección por objetivos, con el propósito de alinear los esfuerzos de cada Organismo de la Administración Central del Estado, Entidad Nacional, Organización Superior de Dirección
Empresarial, Gobernadores y Consejos de Administración Municipal hacia metas concretas y medibles. Permite, además, que a cada nivel se determine el plan de acción para aportar al cumplimiento del Programa.
En este sentido, el Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno 2026 en esencia incluye el universo de objetivos y acciones que se implementan por cada entidad o actor económico e incorpora las propuestas emanadas del proceso de estudio y análisis del Programa.
Con relación al Programa de Gobierno para corregir distorsiones y reimpulsar la economía correspondiente al año 2025, se actualizó el nombre del Programa, el alcance de objetivos generales, se modificaron objetivos específicos, se precisaron los indicadores y actualizaron las metas a lo previsto para el presente año.
En tal sentido, el Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno 2026 quedó estructurado en 10 Objetivos Generales, 111 objetivos específicos, 505 acciones y 309 indicadores y metas, como se detalla a
continuación:
Objetivos Generales:
1. Propiciar un entorno macroeconómico que favorezca la actividad productiva y el incremento de los ingresos externos.
2. Incrementar y diversificar los ingresos externos del país.
3. Incrementar la producción nacional, con énfasis en los alimentos.
4. Transformar, modernizar y desarrollar el sistema empresarial cubano fortaleciendo el papel de la empresa estatal socialista, con énfasis en la integración entre todos los actores económicos.
5. Avanzar en el perfeccionamiento de la gestión estratégica para el desarrollo territorial.
6. Avanzar en el perfeccionamiento de la gestión de Gobierno, la Defensa y la Seguridad Nacional.
7. Consolidar y desarrollar las políticas sociales, arantizando la protección de las personas, familias, hogares y comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad.
8. Avanzar en la implementación de las directivas generales dirigidas a la prevención y reducción del delito, la corrupción, las ilegalidades y las indisciplinas sociales.
9. Avanzar en la recuperación del Sistema electroenergético Nacional, impulsando la soberanía energética.
10. Gestionar la ciencia e innovación, los recursos naturales, la comunicación social y la transformación digital para impulsar las esferas de desarrollo sostenible.
Estructura del Programa:
Alcanzar los resultados esperados depende del trabajo de todos, a partir de la implementación efectiva de las alternativas viables para salir adelante.
El Plan de la Economía y el Presupuesto del Estado para el año 2026, fueron aprobados bajo el principio de ser valores mínimos, por lo que todos debemos identificar nuestras reservas.
Un proceso importante en este año, fue la realización de los Plenos Provinciales del CC PCC y las reuniones extraordinarias, en el mes de enero, de los Consejos Provinciales y del Consejo de la Administración en el Municipio Especial Isla de la Juventud, en las que se evaluaron las posibilidades locales de superar el plan, con énfasis en la producción de alimentos, las que fueron incorporadas a las metas del Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno.
En el complejo momento actual se ratifica la voluntad de resistir y vencer, teniendo como principal inspiración el ejemplo del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, en el año del Centenario de su natalicio, con la convicción de que como él expresara el 26 de julio de 1993, “...los únicos
milagros son los que salen de la dignidad del hombre, de la inteligencia del hombre, del honor del hombre, del trabajo del hombre”.
Nos guía a su vez, la indicación del General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz en la clausura del XX Congreso de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba cuando refirió: “...tengamos presente el principio esencial de que
para distribuir riqueza, primero hay que crearla y para hacerlo tenemos que elevar sostenidamente la eficiencia y la productividad”.
El Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y Presidente de la República Miguel Díaz- Canel Bermúdez expresó: “...seguimos un principio: unidad, continuidad y resistencia creativa. Unidad en torno al Partido, a la Revolución y al ideario marxista,
martiano, fidelista. Continuidad al legado histórico y de la obra que construimos. Resistencia creativa para, en medio de las carencias, crear, innovar y salir adelante”.
El Programa Económico y Social del Gobierno 2026, es un instrumento rector y su materialización exige maximizar el uso de los recursos endógenos, con la participación activa de todo el pueblo.
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Introduction
The Government’s 2026 Economic and Social Program defines the planning and implementation framework for crisis management—specifically *what* to do, *how* to do it, and *when*—in order to revitalize the economy. It serves as the compass, the roadmap, and the guiding thread for achieving the necessary transformations within the complex landscape in which the economy currently operates.
It has been formulated based on the programmatic documents approved at the 7th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, and it addresses critical distortions, internal macroeconomic imbalances, as well as severe external impacts that threaten the stability of—and the fulfillment of objectives set forth in—the National Economic and Social Development Plan through 2030. At the territorial level, it is integrated with the Provincial and Municipal Development Strategies.
The Conceptualization of the Cuban Economic and Social Model, the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution, the National Development Plan through 2030, the Government’s Economic and Social Program, the National Economic Plan, and the State Budget for 2026 constitute the guiding documents that govern the direction of the country's development.
The strength underpinning the achievement of the proposed objectives lies in the dialectical, hierarchical, and complementary relationship that exists among these documents, as detailed below
A proper understanding of the nature and functions of each document—and, above all, of their interrelationship—is crucial to avoid deviations in the achievement of projected goals.
The Government’s 2026 Economic and Social Program is implemented based on the resources approved within the National Economic Plan and the State Budget. Its realization requires both the formulation of policies and—where appropriate—the updating of approved measures, as well as the design of scenarios to identify viable alternatives within the current context.
The year 2026 has begun amidst a marked fracture in the global order, with the United States intensifying its efforts to reimpose the Monroe Doctrine.
The aggression by the United States government is nothing new; it has escalated progressively over recent years—and ruthlessly in recent weeks—through its attempts to completely block the supply of fuel to our country.
In this context—and based on the modeling of various scenarios—the “Government Directives for Addressing an Acute Fuel Shortage” were approved. Their objective is to safeguard the country’s vitality without sacrificing its development, while minimizing the impact of disruptions on the population by leveraging endogenous resources and diversifying avenues for generating increased foreign currency revenue.
We are living in different times; consequently, it is imperative—and can no longer be postponed—that we act differently.
The postponement of the 9th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba serves as a call to action—an opportunity to devise our own solutions to our problems and to improve the living conditions of the population.
The Government’s 2026 Economic and Social Program is the result of the following:
1. The consultation process, involving the study and analysis of the Program at every level.
2. The study of other documents and public addresses delivered by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister.
3. The analysis of documents prepared by the Economic and Social Commission regarding the report on the implementation of the *Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution*; the evaluation of the *National Economic and Social Development Plan through 2030* (PNDES); and the integration of said Plan into the aforementioned Guidelines, which are to be presented at the upcoming Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba.
4. The work undertaken by ten working groups, established and led by the designated heads of general objectives, comprising representatives from the Economic Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, agencies of the Central State Administration, various entities, the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba, independent experts, and liaisons from the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers.
5. Recommendations submitted by members of the Council of State, various State bodies, the Council of Ministers, Provincial Governors, the Government’s Economic Group, as well as a panel of independent experts and academics.
Its formulation reaffirms the approach of management by objectives, with the aim of aligning the efforts of every Central State Administration Body, National Entity, Higher Business Management Organization, Governor, and Municipal Administration Council toward concrete and measurable goals. Furthermore, it enables each level to determine its specific action plan to contribute to the fulfillment of the Program.
In this regard, the Government’s 2026 Economic and Social Program essentially encompasses the full scope of objectives and actions implemented by every entity or economic actor, and incorporates proposals stemming from the study and analysis process undertaken for the Program.
With respect to the Government Program for correcting distortions and boosting the economy for the year 2025, the Program’s title was updated, the scope of its general objectives was refined, specific objectives were modified, indicators were precisely defined, and targets were updated to align with the projections for the current year.
Accordingly, the Government’s 2026 Economic and Social Program is structured into 10 General Objectives, 111 specific objectives, 505 actions, and 309 indicators and targets, as detailed below:
General Objectives:
1. Foster a macroeconomic environment that favors productive activity and the growth of external revenues.
2. Increase and diversify the country’s external revenues.
3. Increase national production, with an emphasis on food products.
4. Transform, modernize, and develop the Cuban enterprise system by strengthening the role of the socialist state enterprise, with an emphasis on integration among all economic actors.
5. Advance the improvement of strategic management for territorial development.
6. Advance the improvement of Government management, National Defense, and National Security.
7. Consolidate and develop social policies, guaranteeing protection of individuals, families, households, and communities in situations of vulnerability.
8. Advance the implementation of general directives aimed at the prevention and reduction of crime, corruption, illegalities, and social indiscipline.
9. Advance the recovery of the National Electric Power System, fostering energy sovereignty.
10. Manage science and innovation, natural resources, social communication, and digital transformation to drive spheres of sustainable development.
Program Structure:
Achieving the expected results depends on everyone's work, starting with the effective implementation of viable alternatives for moving forward.
The Economic Plan and the State Budget for 2026 were approved under the principle of being minimum values, so we must all identify our reserves.
An important process this year was the holding of the Provincial Plenary Sessions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC PCC) and the extraordinary meetings, in January, of the Provincial Councils and the Council of Administration in the Special Municipality of Isla de la Juventud, in which local possibilities for exceeding the plan were evaluated, with an emphasis on food production —goals which have been incorporated into the targets of the Government’s Economic and Social Program.
In this current, complex juncture, our resolve to resist and prevail is reaffirmed—drawing our primary inspiration from the example of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz during the centenary year of his birth—and grounded in the conviction that, as he stated on July 26, 1993: “...the only miracles are those that spring from human dignity, from human intelligence, from human honor, and from human labor.”
We are guided, in turn, by the directive issued by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz at the closing of the 20th Congress of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba, when he noted: “...let us bear in mind the essential principle that, in order to distribute wealth, one must first create it; and to do so, we must consistently enhance efficiency and productivity.”
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, declared: “...we adhere to a guiding principle: unity, continuity, and creative resistance. Unity centered on the Party, the Revolution, and the Marxist, Martían, and Fidelista ideals. Continuity regarding our historical legacy and the work we are building. And creative resistance—so that, amidst shortages, we may create, innovate, and forge ahead.”
The Government’s 2026 Economic and Social Program serves as a guiding instrument; its realization demands the maximization of endogenous resources, bolstered by the active participation of the entire populace.
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