{"type":"video","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Dailymotion","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com","title":"Cuba legalises sale of private property","description":"Cuba's government has given its citizens the right to buy and sell their homes for the first time since the 1959 revolution.The long-awaited reform, published on Thursday in the government's Official Gazette, is one one of the most substantial reforms introduced by Raul Castro, Cuba's president, to liberalize the island's Soviet-style command economy while maintaining the communist system..Phil Peters, a Cuba expert at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia, said the move could have broadramifications for the Cuban economy, where the cash-strapped government is encouraging the growth of self-employment as it attempts to cut a million jobs from its bloated payrolls.\"The ability to sell houses means instant capital formation for Cuban families. It becomes a source of capital at thegrassroots level,\" Peters said. \"It is a big sign of the government letting go.\"Al Jazeera's Jesse Mesner-Hage reports.","author_name":"Al Jazeera English","author_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/aljazeeraenglish","width":480,"height":269,"html":"<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xt3abt&\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/s2.dmcdn.net\/v\/2wPG91gUxxKkl5CAc\/x240","thumbnail_width":427,"thumbnail_height":240}