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Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, third from left, walks away from the site where a Boeing 737 plummeted into a yuca field with more than 100 passengers on board, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Cuban airliner crashed just after takeoff from Havana's international airport on Friday. (AP Photo/Enrique de la Osa)

Company in Cuba plane crash had received safety complaints

By Michael Weissenstein and Bert Wilkinson - Associated Press

Rescue teams search through the wreckage site of a Boeing 737 that plummeted into a cassava field with more than 100 passengers on board, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Cuban airliner crashed just after takeoff from Havana's international airport in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Officials say company in Cuba crash had safety complaints

By BY MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and BERT WILKINSON - Associated Press

Today in Arizona History

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In this photo released by Cuba's state-run media Cubadebate, Cuba's President Raul Castro, center left, enters the National Assembly followed by his successor Miguel Diaz-Canel, center right, for the start of two-day legislative session in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. The Cuban assembly selected the 57-year-old First Vice President as the sole candidate to succeed Castro on Wednesday, in a transition aimed at ensuring that the country's single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it. (Irene Perez/Cubadebate via AP)

The Latest: Pence tweets response to Cuba’s Raul Castro

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In this March 17, 2015, file photo, Cuba's President Raul Castro listens to the playing of national anthems during his welcome ceremony at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. On April 19, 2018, Raul Castro will step down as president after a decade in office. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Miguel Diaz-Canel, bureaucrat, replaces Raul Castro as Cuba’s president

By Michael Weissenstein and Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 2, 2007 file photo shows the Miramar section of Havana, Cuba. In 2008, the government lifted its prohibition on Cubans staying at the island’s resort hotels. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Economic changes in Cuba under President Raul Castro

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2018 file photo, a tourist walks with her suitcase in front of the Capitolio in Havana, Cuba. President Donald Trump drew cheers from a Cuban-American crowd last summer when he announced that he was rolling back some of Barack Obama's opening to Cuba in order to starve the island's military-run economy of U.S. tourism dollars and ratchet up pressure for regime change. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

AP Explains: For Americans, big changes in travel to Cuba

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this April 12, 2018 photo, artist and former diplomat Hector Pascual Gallo Portieres poses at his home in the Alamar public housing complex in Havana, Cuba. The barber by profession was approached in 1960 to go on a mission to find out how the U.S. would attack Cuba. He found answers in Costa Rica, and was highly decorated for alerting Cuba to the 1961 U.S. invasion of the Bay of Pigs. After years in diplomacy, he returned home to teach intelligence and retired after 30 years. Gallo, now 93, says he hopes the next generation will be faithful to national hero Jose Marti and to the process Fidel Castro started. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP PHOTOS: Cuba transition sparks hope for many generations

By RAMON ESPINOSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 6, 2013 file photo, Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, and Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez attend the opening of a two-day, twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba. Diaz-Canel, 57, is widely expected to take Castro’s place as Cuba’s next president on April 19. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate, File)

Younger party official faces test as Cuba’s next president

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2018 file photo, a tourist walks with her suitcase in front of the Capitolio in Havana, Cuba. President Donald Trump drew cheers from a Cuban-American crowd last summer when he announced that he was rolling back some of Barack Obama's opening to Cuba in order to starve the island's military-run economy of U.S. tourism dollars and ratchet up pressure for regime change. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

AP Explains: For Americans, big changes in travel to Cuba

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2014 file photo, workers stand behind their food stalls at a state-run market in Havana, Cuba. The average monthly state salary of $31 is so low that some workers often live on stolen goods and handouts from relatives overseas. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Raul Castro leaves Cuba with new freedoms, deep problems

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Cuba's President Raul Castro speaks during a rally in Havana, Cuba, in this Nov. 29, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

Cuba’s leadership transition is an illegitimate succession of power

By Ana Quintana

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2018 file photo, a tourist walks with her suitcase in front of the Capitolio in Havana, Cuba. President Donald Trump drew cheers from a Cuban-American crowd last summer when he announced that he was rolling back some of Barack Obama's opening to Cuba in order to starve the island's military-run economy of U.S. tourism dollars and ratchet up pressure for regime change. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

AP Explains: For Americans, big changes in travel to Cuba

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - This June 10, 2016 file photo shows a family photograph of the Castro brothers, from left, Fidel, Raul and Ramon, on the wall of the room they shared as children in Biran, Cuba. Biran is the birthplace of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and his brother, President Raul Castro. Their father Angel planted and sold sugarcane and timber as well as raising cattle deep in the lush green hill country of Holguin province in eastern Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

AP PHOTOS: Cuba’s Castro brothers through the years

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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2016, file photo, tourists look at a classic American car parked beside the cruise ship terminal in Havana, Cuba. Cuba is one of four destinations where a new trip-planning company called ViaHero is offering its services. For a flat fee of $25 a day, a ViaHero expert on the ground in your destination plans your trip, from lodging and airport pick-up to what to see and where to eat. The service combines authentic local recommendations, the convenience of online booking and the old-school guidance of a travel agent. In addition to Cuba, ViaHero plans trips in Iceland, Japan and Colombia. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

A new model for travel? Pay a local $25 a day to plan a trip

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

US redistributes Havana routes to 5 big US airlines

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President Trump is invited but is likely to get a cool reception at the Summit of the Americas in Peru. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro — who is notably not invited — says he will go anyway. He said he and Mr. Trump "will understand each other, communicate with each other and respect each other." (Associated Press/File)

Summit of the Americas clashes build drama for host Peru

By Frederico Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

People wait to for visa applications outside the Colombian embassy in Havana to be able to travel to Colombia and have access to the US embassy in Bogota, Cuba, Friday, March 2, 2018. Citing mysterious &quot;health attacks&quot; in Havana, the United States said Friday it was making permanent its withdrawal of 60 percent of its diplomats from Cuba as investigations continue. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba ‘health attacks’ a puzzle; embassy cuts permanent

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this Oct. 3, 2017 photo, tourists ride a classic convertible car on the Malecon beside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. The United States said Friday it was making permanent its decision last year to withdraw 60 percent of its diplomats from Cuba, citing the need to protect American personnel from what the State Department called “health attacks” that remain unexplained. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

US makes Cuba embassy cuts permanent after ‘health attacks’

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Leahy leads congressional delegation to Cuba

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