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People walk along the malecon watching the fireworks as part of the celebration of the 500 years of the city in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Havana celebrate its 500th anniversary on Saturday, a milestone event which has sparked reflection and anticipation in the country, as it faces an increasingly hostile US Administration and serious economic challenges. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Crowd honors tree as Havana celebrates 500th anniversary

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 20, 2019 file photo, Cuba's Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso receives the Star of the Century award from the Latin Music Institute in recognition of her contribution to ballet and culture, during a ceremony in Havana, Cuba. Cuba's national ballet has reported that Alonso has died on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Alicia Alonso, the grande dame of Cuban ballet, has died

By PETER ORSI and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Vehicles wait in a line to fill their gas tanks, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. A fuel shortage blamed on the Trump Administration has turned filling a tank in Cuba into an ordeal even for a country used to waiting in lines. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cubans wait hours in gas lines as fuel crisis bites

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Russian Navy Admiral Gorshkov frigate arrives at the port of Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 24, 2019. A flotilla of Russian Navy vessels entered Havana Harbor early Monday morning, a sign of solidarity between Russia and Cuba after the deepening rift with the United States, which stopped all U.S. cruise ships from visiting the country earlier this month. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Admiral Gorshkov, Russian warship, enters Havana harbor

By Michael Weissenstein, Andrea Rodriguez and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian Navy Admiral Gorshkov frigate arrives at the port of Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 24, 2019. A flotilla of Russian Navy vessels entered Havana Harbor early Monday morning, a sign of solidarity between Russia and Cuba after the deepening rift with the United States, which stopped all U.S. cruise ships from visiting the country earlier this month. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

What’s an advanced Russian warship doing in Havana harbor?

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

A Royal Caribbean Cruise ship called the Majesty of the Seas sets out at Port Everglades and will no longer go to Cuba, on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, including a ban on many forms of educational and recreational travel. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Cuba restrictions hit cruise lines at the start of summer

By DAVID KOENIG and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

Postcard from Cuba Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Havana ruined, impoverished by 60 years of statism

By Ike Brannon

Residents rest on a bench backdropped by a mural featuring Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez and President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 3, 2019. In the fourth month of their standoff, Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó are unable to deliver a knock-out blow as Venezuela spirals deeper into neglect, isolation and desperation. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Mediation in Norway aims to resolve Venezuela crisis

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Cuban police detain a gay rights activist taking part in an unauthorized march in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 11, 2019. The march was organized largely using Cuba's new mobile internet, with gay-rights activists and groups of friends calling for a march over Facebook and WhatsApp after the government-run gay rights organization cancelled a Saturday march. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuban gay rights groups hold unauthorized march in Havana

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, people put their luggage in a private taxi as they arrive from the U.S. to the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba. In 1958, the father of José Ramón López owned Cuba's main airport, its national airline and three small hotels. All were taken in Cuba's socialist revolution. Starting Thursday, they will be able to file lawsuits against European and American companies doing business on their former properties, thanks to the Trump administration's decision to activate a provision of the U.S. embargo on Cuba with the potential to affect foreign investment in Cuba for many years to come. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Under Trump change, Cuba business partners can now be sued

By GISELA SALOMON and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - 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

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 to allow lawsuits over US properties seized in Cuba

By DEB RIECHMANN and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 photo, Grettel Montes de Oca Valdes, a professional dancer and founder of the group Cubans in Defense of Animals poses with four kittens that she has received in her house in Havana, Cuba. A group of animal-lovers will march a mile down one of Havana’s main thoroughfares Sunday waving placards calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba. Short, seemingly simple, the march will write a small but significant line in the history of modern Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In possible first, Cuba allows march by animal activists

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 photo, Grettel Montes de Oca Valdes, a professional dancer and founder of the group Cubans in Defense of Animals poses with four kittens that she has received in her house in Havana, Cuba. A group of animal-lovers will march a mile down one of Havana’s main thoroughfares Sunday waving placards calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba. Short, seemingly simple, the march will write a small but significant line in the history of modern Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba allows march by animal activists in possible first

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

US eliminates coveted 5-year tourist visa for Cubans

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Cuba's Director General of U.S. Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, center, waits to give a statement to the press as Cuban Interior Ministry investigating officer Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Hernandez Caballero arrives in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, March 14, 2019. Cuban officials made a lengthy 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. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cubans again dispute claim attacks made diplomats ill

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

A man holds his phone showing the app &quot;Sube,&quot; a ride-hailing app for the aging American sedans on the streets of Havana, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. In the 2 1/2 months since Cuba allowed its citizens internet access via cellphones, fast-moving changes are subtle but palpable as Cubans challenge government officials online, post photos of filthy school bathrooms and drag what was once of the world’s least-connected countries into the digital age.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cellphone internet access bringing changes fast to Cuba

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

A man rests on the trunk of a tree that was toppled by a tornado, after removing rubble from his home in Regla, Cuba, on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. A tornado and pounding rains smashed into the eastern part of Cuba's capital overnight, toppling trees, bending power poles and flinging shards of metal roofing through the air as the storm cut a path of destruction across eastern Havana. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Death toll from last week’s Havana tornado rises to 6

Associated Press

People stand around a car that was overturned by a tornado in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. A tornado and pounding rains smashed into the eastern part of Cuba's capital overnight, toppling trees, bending power poles and flinging shards of metal roofing through the air as the storm cut a path of destruction across eastern Habana. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

The Latest: Havana hit by Category F3 tornado

Associated Press

People stand around a car that was overturned by a tornado in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. A tornado and pounding rains smashed into the eastern part of Cuba's capital overnight, toppling trees, bending power poles and flinging shards of metal roofing through the air as the storm cut a path of destruction across eastern Habana. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba; 3 dead, 172 hurt

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press