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FILE - Anti-government protesters gather against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffsat the Maximo Gomez monument in Havana, Cuba, July 11, 2021. Six months after surprising protests against the Cuban government, more than 50 protesters who have been charged with sedition are headed to trial and could face sentences of up to 30 years in prison. (AP Photo/Eliana Aponte, File)

Dozens of Cuba protesters face trial this week: relatives

By Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

Silencing of Cubans Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The great Cuban silencing

By Dr. Oscar Biscet

In this Oct. 3, 2017, photo, tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. The Biden administration faces increasing pressure to respond to a sharply growing number of reported injuries suffered by diplomats, intelligence officers and military personnel that some suspect are caused by devices that emit waves of energy that disrupt brain function. The problem has been labeled the “Havana Syndrome,” because the first cases affected personnel in 2016 at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan) **FILE**

‘Havana syndrome’ mystery expands with new cases at U.S. Embassy in Colombia

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A police emergency vehicle is parked at the U.S. embassy in Berlin Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. After a violent mob in Washington, security around the embassy building was increased. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

Berlin police probe ‘sonic weapon attack’ at U.S. Embassy

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters as lawmakers work to extend government surveillance powers that are expiring soon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Havana Syndrome continues to baffle U.S. officials

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Photo edited for Best of 2020 list.

Congress commits to helping victims of mysterious attacks causing Havana syndrome

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Police stand guard near the National Capitol building in Havana, Cuba, Monday, July 12, 2021, the day after protests against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

More than 140 Cubans detained or disappeared in widening crackdown by regime

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, walks to the chamber for final votes before the Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 28, 2021. Senate Republicans successfully blocked the creation of a commission to study the Jan. 6 insurrection by rioters loyal to former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Collins calls on Biden to ‘grill’ Putin on ‘Havana Syndrome’ origins

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 3, 2017, photo, tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. The Biden administration faces increasing pressure to respond to a sharply growing number of reported injuries suffered by diplomats, intelligence officers and military personnel that some suspect are caused by devices that emit waves of energy that disrupt brain function. The problem has been labeled the “Havana Syndrome,” because the first cases affected personnel in 2016 at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan) **FILE**

CIA victim of ‘Havana Syndrome’ blames Kremlin: ‘Russians are very aggressive’ against U.S. gov’t

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 3, 2017, photo, tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. The Biden administration faces increasing pressure to respond to a sharply growing number of reported injuries suffered by diplomats, intelligence officers and military personnel that some suspect are caused by devices that emit waves of energy that disrupt brain function. The problem has been labeled the “Havana Syndrome,” because the first cases affected personnel in 2016 at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan) **FILE**

Growing mystery of suspected energy attacks draws U.S. concern

By Nomaan Merchant and Robert Burns and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this April 16, 2016, file photo, Cuba's President Raul Castro addresses the Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana, Cuba. The VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, between April 16 and 19, 2021, could go down in history as the last with a member of the Castro family at the head, if Raul Castro fulfills his announcement to say goodbye as secretary-general. (Ismael Francisco/Cubadebate via AP File)

A retiring Castro to bring younger face to Cuba’s communists

By Andrea Rodriguez and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Idania Del Río, left, and Leire Fernández, owners of Clandestina, pose with a mannequin dressed in clothes they created, outside their store in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 18, 2021. Tourists poured through their shop until the Trump administration turned off the taps that had been opened just a few years before by then-President Barack Obama. Today, the doors swing open less often, with tourism choked both by U.S. sanctions meant to punish Cuba's government and a pandemic that has squashed tourism almost everywhere. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba’s struggling entrepreneurs look to Biden with hope

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press

Tampa-Cuba ties frayed under Trump, Now, it’s Biden’s turn

By PAUL GUZZO and The Tampa Bay Times - Associated Press

Cuban officials make a presentation on a series of mysterious illnesses suffered by U.S. and Canadian diplomats in Havana, reiterating that no evidence supports allegations that the symptoms resulted from high-tech attacks, during a news conference in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ** FILE **

Report finds microwave energy likely made US diplomats ill

Associated Press

A framed image of Argentine-born Cuban Revolutionary hero Ernesto &quot;Che&quot; Guevara hangs on a wall next to a bust of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Gregory Biniowsky's house, a Canadian lawyer and consultant who has lived and worked in Cuba for more than 20 years, in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. Biniowsky said that Trump’s hardline policy toward Cuba prompts a defensive, knee-jerk reaction among officials here wary of changes to the largely state-run economy. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Many Cubans hope US election will lead to renewed ties

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

This July 24, 2017 photo released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) on Sept. 15, 2020, shows what the INAH says is a detail of the iron skylight from the bow area of a submerged ship, belonging to the Mayan slave ship &quot;La Union,&quot; off Sisal, in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico. Archaeologists in Mexico say the ship had been used to take Mayan Indigenous people from Mexico, captured during and 1847-1901 rebellion known as “The War of the Castes,” to work in sugarcane fields in Cuba. The La Unión was on a trip to Havana in September 1861 when its boilers exploded and it sank off the once-important Yucatan port of Sisal. (Helena Barba/INAH via AP)

Mexico identifies submerged wreck of Mayan slave ship

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

A street vendor wearing a mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus pushes his cart down a street in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Cuban authorities will introduce new measures starting tomorrow Tuesday aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus in Havana among others a curfew from 7 pm until 5 am and no one without special permission will be able to enter or leave the province. The new measures will last at least 15 days. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba closes off Havana to stamp out spread of coronavirus

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2018 file photo, Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler walks in the courtyard of the City Museum in Havana, Cuba. Leal, who oversaw the transformation of crumbling Old Havana to an immaculately restored colonial tourist attraction, becoming the de-facto mayor of the historic city center and one of the nation’s most prominent public intellectuals, has died according to state media on Friday, July 31, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Eusebio Leal, who oversaw renewal of Old Havana, dies at 77

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and PETER ORSI - Associated Press

US bans charter flights to Cuban cities besides Havana

Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters about additional sanctions placed on Iran, at the White House, Friday, Jan. 10, 2019, in Washington with and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump administration curbs charter flights in new move against Cuba

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times