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FILE - In this file pool photo taken on Oct. 4, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. The crisis in Venezuela may have reached a new boiling point, but the geopolitical fault lines look familiar. Russia, China and Iran have thrown their support behind embattled Maduro, while the U.S., Canada and their allies in Western Europe are backing opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president. (Yuri Kadobnov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Venezuela crisis: Familiar geopolitical sides take shape

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., left, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., speak to the media after their meeting with President Donald Trump about Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Florida officials urge Trump to allow lawsuits to reclaim seized Cuban properties

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Trump weighs dramatic tightening of US embargo on Cuba

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 13, 2015, file photo, tourists ride a classic American convertible in Havana, Cuba. President Donald Trump’s Cuba policy is driving hundreds of millions of dollars from the island’s private entrepreneurs to its military-controlled tourism sector, the opposite of its supposed goal, new statistics say. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Trump’s Cuba policy hurts private sector, new figures say

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017 file photo, Cuba's former Vice-President on the Council of Ministers Jose Ramon Fernandez attends the annual International Book fair opening ceremony in Havana, Cuba. Fernandez, a career soldier who joined Cuba's 1950s Revolution and became a prominent collaborator with the Castro brothers, died on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, according to official media. He was 95. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Ex-Cuban vice president, Bay of Pigs commander, dies at 95

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

This Feb. 27, 2017 photo shows Associated Press photojournalist Desmond Boylan smoking a cigar on the balcony of the agency's office in Havana, Cuba. Boylan, a photographer who covered war and conflict across the world before dedicating his life to documenting the joys and tribulations of daily life in Cuba for The Associated Press, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 29, 2018, in Havana. He was 54. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP photographer Desmond Boylan dies in Havana at 54

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, Cuban First Vice President Salvador Valdes Mesa, second left, and Cuban Vice President Ramiro Valdez, center, attend the session to debate the draft of a new Constitution, at the Convention Palace in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. The draft will be submitted to a popular referendum on Feb. 24, 2019. Cuba's government said Tuesday that language promoting the legalization of gay marriage will be removed from the draft after widespread popular rejection of the idea. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuban assembly approves draft of new constitution

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Monday, May 3, 1999 file photo, members of the Cuban baseball team carry their country's flag onto the field after a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards in Baltimore. . (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File) **FILE**

Major League Baseball, union, Cuba reach deal for players to sign

By Michael Weissenstein and Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Leinier Dominguez switches chess allegiance to U.S. from Cuba

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2011 file photo, holding up a gay pride flag, transsexual Wendy Iriepa, who had a sex change, rides to her wedding on a classic car in Havana, Cuba. Cuba said on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 that language promoting the legalization of gay marriage will be removed from the draft of a new constitution after widespread popular rejection of the idea. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)

Cuba eliminates gay marriage language from new constitution

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Dr. Michael Hoffer, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in Miami. Hoffer and a group of doctors presented their findings in the case of U.S. diplomats who experienced mysterious health incidents while working at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Cuba health mystery: Diplomats had inner-ear damage early on

By JENNIFER KAY and LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

US demands answers from Cuba on imprisoned dissidents

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

A woman passes by a closed art store decorated by a mural in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. After weeks of public debates and overlapping complaints from artists and intellectuals about a decree that increased control for artists and promoters, Cuban authorities are about to publicize complementary rules that limit the power of cultural inspectors and limit official action about creation. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

AP Exclusive: Cuba softens new law on artistic expression

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Canada weighing all options with Cuban embassy in Havana

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Deputy Director for the United States division of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Johana Tablada speaks to reporters in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. Cuba accused the government of the United States of hindering the fragile diplomatic relations by denying visas to their representatives in the Cuban embassy in Washington and distorting reality to generate new tensions between the two countries in a moment of already distant relations. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Cuba says the US is unfairly denying diplomatic visas

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Cuban doctors assemble to meet Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel after landing in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018. The first group of departing Cuban doctors left Brazil Friday after Cuba recalled more than 8,000 doctors rather than meet conditions imposed by Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who said the &quot;More Doctors&quot; program could continue only if doctors' pay isn't channeled through the Cuban government and if they could bring their families. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Cuban doctors land in Havana after program ends with Brazil

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Spain PM visits Cuba, uses hotel banned to US visitors

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 11, 2012 file photo, Venezuela's former Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez delivers a speech as he takes office as secretary general of the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia. Venezuelan state TV said Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, that Rodriguez passed away in Havana. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Venezuelan ambassador to Cuba Ali Rodriguez dies

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Fashion show blends Cuban private enterprise, US sponsorship

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, Cuban doctors observe a dental procedure during a a training session at a health clinic in Brasilia, Brazil. Cuba said Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, it is ending a program that sent government doctors to remote regions of Brazil in exchange for millions in badly needed dollars. The end of the &quot;Mas Medicos,&quot; or &quot;More Doctors,&quot; program signals a sharp deterioration in relations between communist Cuba and Brazil, which just elected far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Cuba ends medical exchange program with Brazil

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and MARCELO de SOUSA - Associated Press