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.