Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with U.S. companies" and "also with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants," Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga said in an interview in Havana.

Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Monday, the country's grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system.

As Cuba plunges into blackouts and fuel shortages, the Trump administration is pressing Havana for a historic political shake-up, whilst dangling the prospect of American investment

HAVANA, March 16 (Reuters) - Cuba plans to allow nationals living abroad, including in the United States, to invest in and own businesses on the island, the country's deputy prime minister told NBC News,

President Donald Trump said Cuba wants to make a deal with the US, but that he wants to finish the war in Iran before turning to the island nation.