Patricia Grogg

FARC rebel fight­ers say 87 per­cent of peas­ants have no land, and chang­ing this a ma­jor goal of talks in Cuba.

Rules al­low­ing Cubans to buy and sell cars and homes, and to take out loans are steps tak­en to “mod­ernise” the econ­o­my.

A hous­ing deficit means the Com­mu­nist Par­ty is eas­ing re­stric­tions on buy­ing flats, as part a broad pack­age of re­forms.

Cuba’s Com­mu­nist Par­ty (PCC) will meet to de­cide on re­forms aimed at mod­ernising the coun­try’s so­cial­ist econ­o­my.

Cuban po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist says be­ing poor and white not the same as be­ing poor and black.