Cuba’s state-run economy has been in crisis mode for years, but it’s facing some especially sobering arithmetic now. With trade falling and debt stacking up, President Raul Castro has warned Cubans that the island’s socialist system must change. And he’s asking them for something they’re not used to giving in public: criticism.

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  (AP)