Addendum: the legalisation of self employment (which the comrade is correct to say this is all this is) in Cuba was passed a while ago, in 2011 guidelines on the economy. They were only passed after mass consultations involving nine million people from Cuba's eleven million pop. https://twitter.com/mambi26/status/1358524412459429898
Even though this is just the extension of that self-employment option to new roles, be sure that Cuba is ready to combat potential class embalances or primitive accumulation produced by it. Cuba's mass democracy is strong. The state owns pretty much all land. That isn't changing.
That land question is important right. If this got out of hand, the (thoroughly) proletarian state can just turn around and say you can't have the land. The masses have the power to change this through Cuba's proletarian democracy at any poiny.Boom, done. No power is given away.
In brief: the BBC are spreading disinformation to convince you to stop supporting and defending Cuban socialism, presumably because the US is attempting (and failing) to stoke a coup.
It's quite embarrassing that the people attacking Cuba "as Marxists" over this are essentially dealing with processes that began a decade ago they never bothered to read about because the imperialist media hadn't given them an excuse to denounce socialism yet.
Here: the FT do the distortion much more nakedly than I could have even imagined. At no point in the article do they describe how self employment = owning a business: https://www.ft.com/content/3956b50f-621a-4289-90c3-247a2762fae2
On the scale of the non-state sector (which I see the FT forgot to add scare quotes to here).

13% self employed. Oh no, how mighty capital must be in Cuba.
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