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In this Aug. 28, 2019 photo, a giant African snail makes its away along a tube inside a building in Havana, Cuba. With their shiny, brilliantly striped shells and bodies up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, the snails have become public enemy No. 1 for epidemiologists on the island as many frightened citizens grow to fear their ability to transmit diseases and harm crops. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuba battles plague of giant snails

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 8, 2019 file photo, a protestor holds a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: &quot;It's not a fashion. It's the fourth wave. Legal abortion is an obligation of the state,&quot; during a march to mark International Women's Day in Mexico City. Mexican women are marching Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, for greater reproductive rights, including access to abortions, in one of the world’s most restrictive regions for reproductive choice. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

AP Explains: Abortion rights in Mexico and Latin America

By AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens during an event hosted by the Department of State's Energy Resources Governance Initiative in New York, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US hits Cuba’s Raul Castro, family with travel ban

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Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez speaks during a press conference, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Rodríguez says the U.S. expulsion of two Cuban diplomats and energy shortages across the island are part of a Trump administration offensive that will fail to force concessions by his government. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuba: diplomat expulsions, gas crisis part of US offensive

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this July 26, 2015, file photo, a classic American convertible car passes beside the United States Embassy as Cuban flags fly at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, a massive stage on the Malecon seaside promenade in Havana, Cuba. The Cuban government said on Thursday, May 23, 2019, that it is renovating the iconic site of its ideological battle with the U.S, with the creation of two elevated structures on the stage and the addition of dressing rooms. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Cuban diplomats expelled from U.S. over ‘influence operations’

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US expels 2 Cuban diplomats, citing ‘influence operations’

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Cuban Abel Oset Jr., center, and his father Abel Oset, behind him, show their identification to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer before their appointments to apply for asylum in United States, as they cross International Bridge 1 to leave Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and enter Laredo, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Tent courtrooms opened Monday in two Texas border cities to help process thousands of migrants who are being forced by the Trump administration to wait in Mexico while their requests for asylum wind through clogged immigration courts. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants say they face danger before court in Texas tents

By MARIA VERZA and JOHN L. MONE - Associated Press

Colombia's President Ivan Duque waves upon his arrival for a meeting with leaders of several South American nations that share the Amazon, in Leticia, on Colombia's Amazon river border with Brazil and Peru, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Presidents and representatives from several countries in South America's Amazon region met to discuss a joint strategy for preserving the world's largest rain forest, which has been under threat from a record number of wildfires. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia threatens to denounce Cuba as sponsor of terrorism

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Youths plays soccer in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, Aug. 18, 2019. Six decades ago, the U.S. implemented an embargo against Cuba with the objective of stifling the economy and bringing down the communist government, however, according to many experts it instead harmed the population while generating resilience. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

US limits amount of money that Americans can send to Cuba

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this June 26, 2019, photo, Andy Vila, 21, speaks to callers who have phoned in to an anonymous know-your-rights hotline for immigrants who are in Miami illegally. He says his generation is more concerned with solving current problems than fighting past ideological wars. (AP Photo/Ellis Rua)

Some young Americans warm to socialism, even Miami Cubans

By ELLIS RUA - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 12, 2019 photo, Andy Vila, right, sits at Domino Park, where elderly men at left play dominoes, in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. Although the 21-year old was raised in a politically conservative Cuban American household, he is part of a wave of young Americans who are embracing socialism. His political beliefs have caused deep rifts within his family and social circles. (AP Photo/Ellis Rua)

Cuban Americans warm to socialism

By Ellis Rua - Associated Press

Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, center, walks during a ceremony for police officers fallen in action, at the Panama Border Police headquarter in Meteti, Panama, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

US homeland security chief tours Panama jungle migrant camp

By JUAN ZAMORANO - Associated Press

A woman walks next to a sign that reads in Spanish &quot;Trump, Unblock Venezuela,&quot; a reference to the Venezuelan government view that U.S. sanctions, aimed at toppling President Nicolas Maduro, are driving the country's economic problems, at the Sao Paulo Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, July 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Leonardo Fernandez)

AP Explains: The wide reach of Trump’s Venezuela sanctions

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence follows President Donald Trump as he walks off after speaking about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump freezes Venezuela gov’t assets in escalation

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Cuba caps prices for food, beverages to cut inflation risk

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In this June 20, 2019 photo, Mary Sardinas, 60, shows a photo of her son, daughter-in-law and grandson in Cuba as she speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Miami. Sardinas is among thousands of Cubans living in the United States whose hopes of reuniting with family members have been put on hold since September 2017, when the Trump administration pulled most of its embassy staff out of Cuba in response to a mysterious illness that struck at least two dozen diplomats or their relatives. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Would-be Cuban immigrants left in limbo by consular closure

By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2011 file photo, Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega celebrates a Mass, in Havana. Cuba's Roman Catholic Church said Friday, July 26, 2019, the former archbishop of Havana who helped organize the first papal visit to communist Cuba has died. Ortega was 83. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)

Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 82

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and PETER ORSI - Associated Press

This image provided by the American Medical Association in July 2019 shows the amount of differences between brain scans of patients, U.S. diplomats who developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba, and a control group. Between late 2016 and May 2018, several U.S. and Canadian diplomats in Havana complained of health problems from an unknown cause. One U.S. government count put the number of American personnel affected at 26. (American Medical Association via AP)

Diplomats’ brain scans show differences, add to Cuba mystery

By LINDSEY TANNER - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2019, photo, Dianelys Alfonso, singer whose voice won her the label &quot;Goddess of Cuba&quot; sits during an interview with The Associated Press in Havana, Cuba. She became the center of a new phenomenon in Cuba when she publicly denounced another renowned musician, flutist and bandleader José Luis Cortés, accusing him of repeatedly hitting and raping her during her time as vocalist for NG La Banda, one of the best-known Cuban bands of the last three decades. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuban singer becomes pioneer of #MeToo movement on island

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

New York City Mayor and and presidential candidate Bill de Blasio joins a strikers at Miami International Airport Thursday, June 27, 2019. During his speech, he said the Spanish slogan “Hasta la Victoria, siempre!” a phrase associated with revolutionary leader Che Guevara and a rally cry for Fidel Castro. That drew criticism in a city heavily influenced by exiles who fled Fidel Castro’s government. (AP Photo/Marcus Lim)

The Latest: De Blasio apologizes for revolutionary slogan

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