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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, July 26, 2015. The United States Embassy in Cuba is opening visa and consular services on Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023. It was the first time since a spate of unexplained health incidents among diplomatic staff in 2017 slashed American presence in Havana(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

U.S. reopening visa and consular services at embassy in Cuba

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

Silencing of Cubans Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The great Cuban silencing

By Dr. Oscar Biscet

Men use a prepaid public Wi-FI connection on their cellphones next to a park that's popular for connectivity, which costs money, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, July 14, 2021. The government responded to Sunday’s anti-government protests by shutting down internet and mobile data services by the state-run phone monopoly, effectively cutting off social media. (AP Photo/Eliana Aponte) **FILE**

GOP lawmakers push legislation to counter internet censorship of Cuban dissidents

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

A woman shouts during a an anti-government protest in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

‘Nothing short of historic’: House panel presses for support of Cuba protesters

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Cuba accuses US diplomat of supporting illegal actions

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Cuba caps prices for food, beverages to cut inflation risk

By Associated Press - Associated Press

US restricts visas for Cubans involved in overseas medicine

Associated Press

FILE - In this May 12, 2018 file photo, Mariela Castro, daughter of Raul Castro and director of Cuba's National Center for Sexual Education, waves a rainbow flag while sitting in a convertible car during the annual Gay Pride parade in Havana, Cuba. Castro said Tuesday, May 7, 2019, that the Cuban government has cancelled the Conga Against Homophobia parade, that was widely seen as a sign of progress on gay rights. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Cuba cancels Conga Against Homophobia parade

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2019, file photo, national security adviser John Bolton speaks to the Venezuelan American community in Miami. The Trump administration is poised to step up pressure on Cuba by allowing lawsuits against foreign companies doing business in properties seized from Americans after the island’s 1959 revolution. The move marks a change in more than two decades of U.S. policy on Cuba. It could deal a severe blow to Cuba’s efforts to draw foreign investment, and spawn international trade disputes between the U.S. and Europe. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Trump cracks down on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

By GISELA SALOMON and DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE - 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

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

FILE - In this July 1, 2015 file photo, youths use a password protected wifi network coming from a five star hotel to surf the Internet on their smart phones in downtown Havana, Cuba. Cuba's government announced on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 that its citizens will be offered full internet access on mobile phones starting Thursday, Dec. 6, becoming one of the last nations to do so. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Cuba to begin full internet access for mobile phones

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)

Brazil ex-minister: Loss of Cuban doctors will hurt millions

By PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

Amnesty urges Cuba to allow access to detained dissident

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 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 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

A waiter serves customers at a private restaurant's outdoor seating in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. Eight years after Cuba's President Raul Castro widened the niche for private enterprise in Cuba's state-dominated economy, he has thrown the brakes on, raising fundamental questions about the nation's economic path. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Castro freezes Cuban private sector, throws future in doubt

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

A street sweeper cleans the sidewalk under a mural painting depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 16, 2017. President Trump is en route to Miami, where he'll announce his plans for halting the flow of U.S. cash to Cuba's military and security services while maintaining diplomatic relations, in a partial reversal of the Obama administration policies. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

The Latest: Cuba rejects ‘hostile rhetoric’ of Trump

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Grand Theater of Havana, Cuba. President Barack Obama is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban national who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, a senior administration official said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Obama ends visa-free path for Cubans who make it to US soil

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and JULIE PACE - Associated Press