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A woman shows a 2012 publication of a local newspaper carrying the story of the 1967 Cuban guerrilla operation in Machurucuto, Venezuela, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Fifty-two years ago this month an expeditionary force of 12 guerrillas departed from the communist-run island and days later landed in this sleepy fishing village with the goal of spreading Fidel Castro's revolution to South America. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Decades after failed invasion, Cuba still eyes Venezuela

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2018, file photo, Cuba's Director-General of U.S. Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio makes a statement to reporters, in Havana, Cuba. De Cossio says his nation has no troops in Venezuela but it maintains the right to military and intelligence cooperation with its ally. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

No Cuban troops in Venezuela, Cuban diplomat tells AP

By MATTHEW LEE and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Cuba Battering Ram Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How Castro’s communism drives illegal immigration

By Steve Hecht

In this June 6, 2018 photo, an Iron Spartans statue stands on the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. The statue represents the 591st U.S. Military Police Company which was deployed at one time at the base. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP PHOTOS: A glimpse into life in Cuba’s 2 Guantanamos

By RAMON ESPINOSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010, file photo, Luis Posada Carriles talks in Miami. Posada Carriles was long suspected of organizing a string of Havana hotel bombings in 1997 and the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73. Posada Carriles died Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Miami. He was 90 years old. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles has died

By GISELA SALOMON - 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 March 14, 2012 file photo, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, son of then Cuban leader Fidel Castro, speaks with an unidentified woman during the presentation of his father's book "Nuestro Deber es Luchar," or "Our Duty is to Fight," in Havana, Cuba. According to Cuban state media on Feb. 1, 2018, Diaz-Balart has killed himself. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

Fidel Castro son commits suicide, Cuba state media reports

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Box of Fidel Castro’s cigars sells for almost $27,000

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“Cuba and the Cameraman,” a morally toxic new documentary on Netflix, captures the decay of a proud over decades and its people honoring the man who helped make it happen. (Associated Press/File)

Jon Alpert’s Fidel Castro documentary morally toxic

By Christian Toto - Special to The Washington Times

Agustina Castro, Fidel and Raul’s sister, dies in Cuba at 78

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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2007 file photo, Prince performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XLI football game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. Widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive and influential musicians of his era with hits including "Little Red Corvette," ''Let's Go Crazy" and "When Doves Cry," he was found dead at his home on Thursday, April 21, 2016, in suburban Minneapolis, according to his publicist. He was 57. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Final goodbye: Roll call of some of those who died in 2016

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

Cuban migrants: Castro’s death, arrest fears delayed journey

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A Cuban band plays at a cafe in Old Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. Nine days of mourning for Fidel Castro end and Cuba begins to resume its life, with music in the streets, alcohol sold again and work returning to a normal pace. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Cuba starts return to normal as mourning for Castro ends

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

A woman speaks on a public telephone as a man repairs a wheel in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, the day after Fidel Castro's death. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule of Cuba, died at age 90 in Cuba late Friday, Nov. 25. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

The Latest: No tears shed by Miami exiles for Castro funeral

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In this 1960 photo, Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, center, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, left, and Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos, right, attend a reception in an unknown location in Cuba. Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90. The bearded revolutionary, who survived a crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as dozens, possibly hundreds, of assassination plots, died eight years after ill health forced him to formally hand power over to his younger brother Raul, who announced his death late Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, on state television. (Prensa Latina via AP Images, File)

U.S-Cuba report card

By Bruce Fein

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick speaks during a post-game news conference at the end of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016, in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Dolphins defeated the 49ers 31-24. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

The education of Colin Kaepernick

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This Nov. 27, 2016 photo shows tour guide Jorge Garcia, outside a shack used by Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains near La Plata, Cuba. Castro launched his guerrilla war 60 years ago from a jungle command center in this area. Hikers on a tour of Castro's footsteps heard the news of his death via a crackling two-way radio, their sole link to the outside world. (AP Photo/Karin Laub)

News of Castro death came by radio to his guerrilla hideout

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

The Cuban community celebrates the announcement that Fidel Castro died as they gather in front La Carreta Restaurant, early Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Miami. Within half an hour of the Cuban government’s official announcement that former President Fidel Castro had died, Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, at age 90, Miami’s Little Havana teemed with life - and cheers. (David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald via AP)

Castro’s death is bittersweet for nostalgic Cuban exiles

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

A caricature depicting Cuba's late leader Fidel Castro is surrounded by flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the Cuban embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule of Cuba, died late Friday at age 90. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

From milk to lightbulbs, Fidel Castro reshaped life in Cuba

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

A woman speaks on a public telephone as a man repairs a wheel in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, the day after Fidel Castro's death. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule of Cuba, died at age 90 in Cuba late Friday, Nov. 25. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Raul Castro, regional leaders honor Fidel Castro at rally

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ and JUAN ZAMORANO - Associated Press