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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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The Star of David decorates a tomb eroded by moss at the Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa in eastern Havana, Cuba, June 7, 2019. Slowly, the first Jewish cemetery in Cuba is beginning to be rehabilitated, along with the memory of many of the island's early Jewish forebears. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba restores oldest Jewish cemetery as Havana is spruced up

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Canada's Jonathan David (20) battles Cuba's Aricheell Hernandez (10) during the first half of their CONCACAF Golf Cup soccer match in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, June 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Cavallini, David scores 3 goals, Canada defeats Cuba 7-0

By STEVE REED - Associated Press

Cuba goalkeeper Sandy Sanchez (1) makes save against Mexico forward Raúl Jimenez (9) during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match in Pasadena, Calif., Saturday, June 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Antuna has hat trick, Mexico routs Cuba 7-0 in Gold Cup

By JOE REEDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, file photo, a building housing Expedia is seen in Bellevue, Wash. Expedia has agreed to pay more than $325,000 to settle U.S. government allegations that it improperly helped people travel inside Cuba or between the island and places other than the United States. The Treasury Department announced the agreement and settlements with several other companies on Thursday, June 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

US says Expedia pays $325,000 over Cuban travel allegations

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In this Feb. 2, 2016, file photo, a detainee is seen in the communal area inside Camp 6 in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Ben Fox) ** FILE **

House panel bans new detainees from entering Guantanamo Bay, blocks new construction

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

A ship of the Norwegian Cruise Line leaves the bay of Havana at dawn, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. The Trump administration has imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, banning stops by cruise ships and ending a heavily used form of educational travel as it seeks to further isolate the communist government. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba expects major economic damage from Trump measures

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Bobbie Bryant, 41, of Orlando, Fla., holds a fan that she got in Cuba as she arrives back to Port Everglades on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, includinsg a ban on many forms of educational and recreational travel. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Can Americans still go to Cuba? Yes, but it’s more difficult

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

A Royal Caribbean Cruise ship called the Majesty of the Seas sets out at Port Everglades and will no longer go to Cuba, on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, including a ban on many forms of educational and recreational travel. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Cuba restrictions hit cruise lines at the start of summer

By DAVID KOENIG and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

Secretary of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senior White House Advisor Ivanka Trump and others, wait to enter 10 Downing Street, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in London. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump administration halts cruises to Cuba under new rules

By MATTHEW LEE and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Tourists who have just disembarked from a cruise liner, tour the city aboard a vintage American convertible, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. The Trump administration has imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, banning stops by cruise ships and ending a heavily used form of educational travel as it seeks to further isolate the communist government. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

U.S. cracks down on travel to Cuba

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Norwegian diplomat Dag Nylander, left, applauds as Ivan Marquez, chief negotiator of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, center, and Humberto de La Calle, head of Colombia's government peace negotiation team, shakes hands after signing a peace agreement, in Havana, Cuba. Nylander is a Latin America specialist who between 2012 and 2016 served as one of two facilitators in negotiations aimed at ending Colombia´s long armed conflict. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Norwegian diplomat pushes Venezuela talks against the odds

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2017 photo Roberto Carlos Villamar uses his laptop on the new experimental internet in the living room of his home in Havana, Cuba. Cuba announced Wednesday, May 29, 2019 that it is legalizing private Wi-Fi networks and the importation of equipment like routers, eliminating one of the world's tightest restrictions on internet use. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Cuba legalizes private Wi-Fi, importation of routers

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Dec. 12, 2018 photo provided by the Environmental Defense Fund, Patricia Gonzalez, director of the University of Havana's Center for Marine Research, third from right, sitting in front of a laptop, attends a field workshop with fellow Cuban scientists, and government officials, aboard a vessel at Parque Nacional Jardines de la Reina, Cuba. The New York-based Environmental Defense Fund has worked with Cuban universities, research centers and the Cuban government for 19 years on marine and coastal conservation. (Environmental Defense Fund via AP)

Cuba/US scientific cooperation declines under Trump

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

Workers rebuild and refurbish the central station in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. Cuba's railway system is undergoing a major overhaul, with the government pushing a program to revamp the decrepit and aging network with new cars and locomotives in the hope of restoring a rail service that was once the envy of Latin America. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuba tries to revive its once-great railway network

By CHRISTOPHER GILLETTE - Associated Press

Independent Cuban think tank says closing under pressure

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In this May 12, 2019 photo, tourists snorkel in the Caribbean, off a beach in Varadero, Cuba. As most of Cuba’s economy stagnates or declines, the country has launched a full-scale effort to turn virtually the only bright spot, tourism, into an engine that can drag the rest of the communist island through its worst economic crisis in two decades. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuba bets on tourism as Trump restrictions take hold

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

A woman shows a 2012 publication of a local newspaper carrying the story of the 1967 Cuban guerrilla operation in Machurucuto, Venezuela, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Fifty-two years ago this month an expeditionary force of 12 guerrillas departed from the communist-run island and days later landed in this sleepy fishing village with the goal of spreading Fidel Castro's revolution to South America. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Decades after failed invasion, Cuba still eyes Venezuela

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, left, and Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, right, meet in Havana, Cuba, May 16, 2019. Freeland's office says the purpose of the visit is &quot;to discuss the deteriorating situation&quot; in Cuba's ally Venezuela, as well as tightened U.S. sanctions on Cuba. (Alexandre Meneghini/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Cuban, Canadian FMs meet to discuss Venezuela

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In this April 29, 2019, photo, Cuban migrants are escorted by Mexican immigration officials in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as they cross the Paso del Norte International bridge to be processed as asylum seekers on the U.S. side of the border. Burgeoning numbers of Cubans are trying to get into the U.S. by way of the Mexican border, creating a big backlog of people waiting on the Mexican side for months for their chance to apply for asylum. (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

Burgeoning numbers of Cubans trying to enter U.S. via Mexico

By Cedar Attansio, Elliot Spagat and Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press