The Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz urged the regime's leaders to take on the Government Program not as a mere document, but as "a working tool that guides the work at all levels."
He made the request at the Higher School of State and Government Officials, at a time when suspicions of secret negotiations between Washington and Havana create uncertainty and paralysis within the Cuban bureaucratic system.
Marrero was straightforward in his warning. "We emphasize an essential idea: if we only see the Government Program as a document, we lost the fight."
The phrase, published on his X account, reveals the regime's fear that its own members are not responding to the urgency of the historical moment that Cuba is experiencing.
The program that Marrero refers to was approved at the end of 2025 and updated in February 2026. It is a lengthy document that is difficult to interpret even for the regime's own officials, featuring bureaucratic language and guidelines that have undergone changes over time.
The most important objectives of that strategic plan are: to prioritize business autonomy, food production, the transformation of the energy matrix, and to achieve macroeconomic stabilization in Cuba.
The adjustment was not due to the failure to meet the plan, which is common in Cuban state development programs, but rather due to changes in the international landscape.
In January, the capture of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces halted the supply of Venezuelan oil to Cuba. By the end of that month, Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14380, declaring a national emergency and threatening tariffs on countries that supply crude oil to the island.
Then came reports from the U.S. press revealing how the Trump administration is secretly negotiating an economic agreement with Havana that would include openings in ports, energy, and tourism.
Trump publicly confirmed it at the "Shield of the Americas" summit in Miami. "Cuba is at the end of the road. They have no money or oil. They want to negotiate," said the president.
The conversations would be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and would involve Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, grandson of Raúl Castro, bypassing the official channels of the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel.
According to political analysts, this places Díaz-Canel, Marrero, and the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in an unsustainable political and psychological position before the people, but above all, they lose credibility among their subordinates.
The prime minister is urging discipline among the leaders of state-owned enterprises and the PCC, forcing them to commit to an institutional roadmap that has borne no fruit for decades, while the suspicion grows that the future of the regime is being negotiated above them, between the Castro family and Washington.
The result is skepticism among the leaders, a covert waiting for news of change that never arrives, and paralysis within the institutions, justified by the lack of fuel, the shortage of all kinds of resources in the country, and daily power outages lasting more than 20 hours.
Manuel Marrero has been clear in his message, the regime is "losing the fight" and the lack of interest in its Government Program is the most evident proof of this.
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