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A woman from Cuba waves Adonia leaves port in Miami, Sunday, May 1, 2016, en route to Cuba. After a half-century of waiting, passengers finally set sail on Sunday from Miami on an historic cruise to Cuba. Carnival's Cuba cruises, operating under its Fathom band, will visit the ports of Havana, Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. (Patrick Farrell/The Miami Herald via AP)

First U.S. cruise in decades arrives in Havana, Cuba, from Miami

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

President Obama walks with first lady Michelle Obama, who is holding the arm of her mother Marian Robinson, during a tour of Old Havana, Cuba, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

President Obama lands in Cuba, human rights on the agenda

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this July 20, 2015, file photo, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, right of center, applauds with other dignitaries after raising the Cuban flag over their new embassy in Washington. The Obama administration doesn't plan to invite Cuban dissidents to Secretary of State John Kerry's historic flag-raising at the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, Aug. 14, vividly illustrating how U.S. policy is shifting focus from the island's opposition to its single-party government. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

Cuba dissidents won’t attend U.S. Embassy event

By Bradley Klapper and Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

This undated handout photo provided by the US Coast Guard shows US Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant. Thirty-eight Cuban migrants caught trying to sail to the U.S. are stranded aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, waiting for permission from the Cuban government to return home, The Associated Press has learned. The migrants were among about 96 Cubans who were intercepted at sea and taken aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant. The Cuban government allowed the return of the other 58 people. (Coast Guard via AP)

Cuba says migrants aboard US ship to be let back in country

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug.7, 2013 photo, farmer Ben Burgess examines a rice field for a type of low-yield rice near Coy, Ark. Arkansas agriculture and business groups applauded the Cuba trade, travel and diplomatic policy announced by President Barack Obama on Wednesday, ArkansasOnline reported. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) **FILE**

Farm groups still face hurdles in opening Cuba market

By Chris White - The Washington Times

President Obama's warming relations with Cuban President Raul Castro have drawn fire from political opponents, namely Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican and a Cuban-American, who says Mr. Obama's embracing Mr. Castro sends "the wrong kind of message." (Associated Press) ** FILE **

CHRISTY STUTZMAN: Cuban pro-freedom resistance needs U.S. support

By Christy Stutzman

Members of the Ladies in White, a Cuban dissident group, participate in a demonstration Sunday in Havana. Cuban authorities have reportedly detained overnight dozens of pro-democracy and free speech activists this week, including at least three members of the nation's political opposition ahead of a planned protest art performance in Havana. (Associated Press)

Cuba crackdown on political dissidents tests Obama diplomatic outreach

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This file handout photo provided by the Gross family shows Alan and Judy Gross in an unknown location. (AP Photo/Gross Family, File)

Alan Gross released from Cuba in exchange for 3 Cuban spies jailed in U.S.

By Julie Pace and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

A man reads a copy of Cuba's state newspaper Granma while waiting for the bus in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 19, 2014. Cuba’s best-known blogger Yoani Sanchez and her husband Reinaldo Escobar say they will start publishing the country’s first major independent general-interest newspaper in more than 50 years on Wednesday, in a move that will test both the government’s openness to free expression and the dissident’s ability to build a following inside her country. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Cuban blogger’s news site hacked after going live

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Cuba arrests 4 exiles, alleges terror plot

By PETER ORSI and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2012 file photo provided by U.S. lawyer James L. Berenthal, jailed American Alan Gross poses for a photo during a visit by Rabbi Elie Abadie and Berenthal at Finlay military hospital in Havana, Cuba. Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba, released a statement through his lawyer Tuesday, April 8, 2014, saying he began fasting to protest his treatment by the governments of Cuba and the United States. (AP Photo/James L. Berenthal, File)

Cuba ‘concerned’ over American’s hunger strike

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

‘Cuban Twitter’ a new hurdle for bloggers, exiles

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Students gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a &quot;Cuban Twitter,&quot; a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them. In 2012, the text messaging service vanished as mysteriously as it appeared. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest

By DESMOND BUTLER and JACK GILLUM and ALBERTO ARCE - Associated Press

Cuban-Americans react to secret Twitter project

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ready to fly the Cuban coop

The Washington Times

Cuba criticizes Twitter for Fidel death rumor

By PAUL HAVEN - Associated Press

Pedro Pablo Oliva (Associated Press)

Cubans test official limits on criticism

By Peter Orsi - Associated Press

Pablo Milanes looks forward to first Miami gig

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ - Associated Press

Judge delays trial of ex-CIA agent

By Will Weissert - Associated Press

Envoy accused of aiding dissent