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In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 photo, Grettel Montes de Oca Valdes, a professional dancer and founder of the group Cubans in Defense of Animals poses with four kittens that she has received in her house in Havana, Cuba. A group of animal-lovers will march a mile down one of Havana’s main thoroughfares Sunday waving placards calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba. Short, seemingly simple, the march will write a small but significant line in the history of modern Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In possible first, Cuba allows march by animal activists

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 photo, Grettel Montes de Oca Valdes, a professional dancer and founder of the group Cubans in Defense of Animals poses with four kittens that she has received in her house in Havana, Cuba. A group of animal-lovers will march a mile down one of Havana’s main thoroughfares Sunday waving placards calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba. Short, seemingly simple, the march will write a small but significant line in the history of modern Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba allows march by animal activists in possible first

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

1,000 replacements for Cuban doctors in Brazil quit program

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

Google's head of Cuba operations, Brett Perlmutter speaks to the press accompanied by Luis Adolfo Iglesias Reyes, vice president of investments of Etecsa, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, March 28, 2019. The American internet giant and the Cuban government agreed Thursday morning to create a seamless, cost-free connection between their two networks once Cuba is able to physically connect to a new undersea fiber-optic cable. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba, Google move to improve island’s connectivity

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

Prince Charles drives a vintage car with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during a cultural event in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. The heir to the British throne arrived in Cuba Sunday with an agenda including visits to historic sites, a solar park, organic farm, bio-medical research center, a meeting with entrepreneurs, a cultural gala and a dinner with Cuba's president. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Royal couple visit UK-linked sites on second day in Cuba

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Backdropped by an image of Che Guevara, Britain's Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, center, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, center right, attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Jose Marti Monument during their official visit in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Prince Charles and Camilla launch first royal visit to Cuba

By Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 21, 2018 photo, a member of the National Assembly studies the proposed constitutional update in Havana, Cuba. Some observers see the new constitution as a merely cosmetic update aimed at assuring one of the world’s last communist systems won’t get another revamp until long after the passing of its founding fathers, while others see the potential for a slow-moving but deep set of changes that will speed the modernization of Cuba’s economically stagnant authoritarian bureaucracy. (Abel Padron, Agencia Cubana de Noticias via AP, File)

Amid crisis, Cuba plans revamp of state and legal system

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

People collect water from an open pipe above the Guaire River during rolling blackouts, which affects the water pumps in people's homes, offices and stores, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 11, 2019. The blackout has intensified the toxic political climate, with opposition leader Juan Guaido blaming alleged government corruption and mismanagement and President Nicolas Maduro accusing his U.S.-backed adversary of sabotaging the national grid. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

US sanctions Russia based bank for its work in Venezuela

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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, the Melia Cohiba hotel stands tall as workers repaint pavement markings along the Malecon in preparation for Pope Francis' visit in Havana, Cuba. The Trump administration is preparing to tighten the six-decade trade embargo on Cuba on Monday, March 4, 2019 by allowing some lawsuits against foreign companies using properties confiscated by the Cuban government after its 1959 revolution, U.S. officials say. Major investors in Cuba include Spanish hoteliers Iberostar and Melia, who run dozens of hotels across the island. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Trump symbolically tightens embargo on Cuba

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2018, file photo, Luis Ortiz, left, hits Travis Kauffman with a knockdown punch during the sixth round of a heavyweight boxing match in Los Angeles. Ortiz and fellow boxing star Erislandy Lara left behind their lives in Cuba for the ones they wanted for themselves and their families in the United States. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

For boxers Lara, Ortiz, leaving Cuba their toughest fight

By BRIAN MAHONEY - Associated Press

A man holds his phone showing the app &quot;Sube,&quot; a ride-hailing app for the aging American sedans on the streets of Havana, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. In the 2 1/2 months since Cuba allowed its citizens internet access via cellphones, fast-moving changes are subtle but palpable as Cubans challenge government officials online, post photos of filthy school bathrooms and drag what was once of the world’s least-connected countries into the digital age.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cellphone internet access bringing changes fast to Cuba

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Players from Panama's Los Toros de Herrera celebrate after a 1-0 win over Puerto Rico's Cangrejeros de Santurce during a Caribbean Series baseball game at Rod Carew stadium in Panama City, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Panama to play Cuba for Caribbean Series title

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Canadian diplomats file suit over injuries suffered in Cuba

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Vladimir Putin backs Nicolas Maduro with military contractors to Venezuela

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

Evangelicals pray during a Mass at a church in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. A Cuban government push to legalize gay marriage has set off an unprecedented reaction from the island's rapidly growing evangelical churches, whose members are expected to widely reject a state-proposed constitutional reform in a nationwide referendum this month.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuban evangelicals push back against gay marriage

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Meteorite strikes in town in western Cuba

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In this April 17, 2018, file photo, a man walks beside Canada's Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Canada announced Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, it is removing up to half of the Canadians at its embassy in Cuba after another diplomat was found to have fallen mysteriously ill. Canada has confirmed 14 cases of mysterious health problems since early 2017. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Canada reducing Canadian staff at Cuban embassy by half

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

Guantanamo hearing in Sept. 11 case abruptly ends

Associated Press

People stand around a car that was overturned by a tornado in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. A tornado and pounding rains smashed into the eastern part of Cuba's capital overnight, toppling trees, bending power poles and flinging shards of metal roofing through the air as the storm cut a path of destruction across eastern Habana. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

The Latest: Havana hit by Category F3 tornado

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Father Cirilo Castro takes part in the consecration Mass of the Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, or Sacred Heart, Catholic church, in Sandino, Cuba, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. The parish is one of three Catholic churches that the Cuban government authorized to be built and the first of the three to be completely finished, with the help of Tampa's St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Florida. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cubans inaugurate first new Catholic church in decades

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press