Cuba’s future economic model in spotlight at party congress

In this April 4, 2016 photo, salesman Victor Rodriguez waits for customers at his stall in the Almacenes San Jose in Havana, Cuba. Since assuming power in 2006, Raul Castro has instituted scattered free-market reforms to alleviate the island’s deep fiscal woes while preserving the communist system ushered in by the 1959 revolution. In 2010, he announced plans to permit more small businesses and reduce state employment. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)