The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of that body reported that, with immediate effect, it amended the regulations on the Caribbean country and authorized internet services, assistance to private sector entrepreneurs and expansion of financial benefits for the population.

Such a decision involves access to programs, mobile app stores, social networks, video conferencing platforms, educational, machine translation, maps, cloud content, among others, which until now were banned from the Caribbean nation as part of Washington’s policy of hostility.

However, OFAC demonstrates that the interventionist approach and limitations to the larger Antilles remain intact, stating that its measures will benefit private sector activities either individually or in cooperatives, and exclude government officials and members of the Cuban Communist Party.

Basically, they will allow private businesses to trade freely just a tiny bit while keeping down state-owned enterprises.