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Congresswoman Barbara Lee, speaks during a press conference, accompanied by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, left, Congressman Sam Farr, second from right, and Congressman Gregory Meeks at the Hotel Saratoga in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 5, 2014. Congresswoman Lee spoke about the situation of imprisoned U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Congress members visit American jailed in Cuba

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[Oldest former MLB player Conrado Marrero dies in Cuba, grandson says

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FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2012 file photo provided by James L. Berenthal, jailed American Alan Gross poses for a photo during a visit by Rabbi Elie Abadie and U.S. lawyer James L. Berenthal at Finlay military hospital as he serves a prison sentence in Havana, Cuba. Scott Gilbert, Gross' attorney said Wednesday, April 23, 2014, that Gross is suffering a number of ailments. On May 2, Gross will turn 65 years old. (AP Photo/James L. Berenthal, File)

Lawyer: US man held in Cuba seeks to go home soon

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 25, 2013 file photo, Conrado Marrero, the world's oldest living former Major League Baseball player, poses for a photo on his 102 birthday at his home in Havana, Cuba. Family members say Marrero has died in Havana. He was 102, just two days short of his 103rd birthday. Grandson Rogelio Marrero confirmed the death on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Marrero was a diminutive right-hander who went by the nickname &quot;Connie&quot; when he pitched for the Washington Senators in the 1950s. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

Oldest living ex-MLB player dies in Cuba at 102

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

Conrado Marrero, oldest living ex-MLB player, dies

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**FILE** In this April 23, 2013 photo, Cuba's former pitcher Conrado Marrero, the world's oldest living former major league baseball player, holds up a baseball with his signature at his home, two days before is 102nd birthday, as he holds an unlit cigar in his mouth in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Conrado Marrero dies at 102; ex-Senator was oldest living MLB player

By Peter Orsi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2004 file photo, Colombia's writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, right, speaks with fans at the inauguration of the 26th Havana Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. Cuba is dedicating the 2014 Havana Film Festival to the late Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was a longtime friend of former leader Fidel Castro and also a major backer of Cuba’s marquee international cinema bash. Havana's film festival takes place each December. Garcia Marquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia, File)

2014 Cuba film festival to honor Garcia Marquez

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CORRECTS DATE- In this April 12, 2014 photo, buildings line the waterfront esplanade known as the Malecon as seen from the Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba. When President Raul Castro legalized a real estate market for the first time in five decades, it was expected to stimulate both new construction and maintenance of existing homes. But 2 ½ years later, there's only been a minimal impact on easing one of Cuba's biggest challenges: a chronic lack of suitable housing. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba home woes endure despite real-estate reform

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

In this March 27, 2014 photo, a poster of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez stands in the Petare shanty town of Caracas, Venezuela. Many in Petare, a sprawling hillside slum of crumbling brick buildings on the eastern outskirts of Caracas, have come to rely on Cuban physicians for free health services in a country where private care is too expensive for the poor and public hospitals have a dismal reputation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Cuban doctors in eye of Venezuelan hurricane

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

City clerk gets probation for stealing from town

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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

Heavy Price: Relatives mourn Maj. German Mendez, one of two Colombian police officers killed last month by rebels in the port town of Tumaco. Guerrillas pay $1,000 to anyone who kills a cop, police say. (REUTERS)

U.S. helping Colombia quell Marxist guerrilla group

By Abraham Mahshie — Special to The Washington Times

Cuban and U.S. boxers greet each other before the start of competition in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April. 4, 2014. Boxers from the U.S. and Cuba went glove-to-glove on Cuban soil for the first time in 27 years Friday in a semipro World Series of Boxing clash. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

US, Cuba boxers renew old rivalry in Havana

By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA - Associated Press