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A mural of author Ernest Hemingway and Fidel Castro shaking hands covers a downtown parking lot in Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 22, 2015. Cuban architects, engineers and workmen will construct a two-story laboratory where thousands of photos, books and letters to and from Hemingway can be treated and preserved. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Ernest Hemingway’s Cuba home to get $900,000 in U.S. improvements

Associated Press

This May 15, 2015 photo shows Mario Otero in front of a classic American car driven by his friend Camilo Rodriguez in Havana, Cuba. Otero, 25, works as a waiter in one of Havana's best restaurants, has a tourism degree, moonlights as a private tour guide with a goal of someday opening his own tourism agency, and sees increased tourism in Cuba as a key to achieving his dreams. Otero, who speaks English and French, is also renovating a house he hopes to rent to tourists. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)

Thawing of US-Cuba relations inspires Havana tourism dreams

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

This May 17, 2015 photo shows the El Floridita bar decorated with a statue of writer Ernest Hemingway, also pictured on the wall in a photo with Fidel Castro, in Old Havana, Cuba. For a drinking tour, consider Ernest Hemingway’s advice: &quot;My mojito in La Bodeguita, my daiquiri in El Floridita.” (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)

CUBA TRAVEL: Visiting vintage Havana involves some old-school hassles

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

Brazilian-born Cosmos soccer player Marcos Senna gives a thumbs up to journalists as he arrives to train at the Pedro Marrero stadium in Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 1, 2015. Cuban officials said the upcoming friendly match between New York Cosmos team and Cuba's national team was a sign of soccer's growing popularity on the island, and an important step in the normalization of the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

New York Cosmos to be first U.S. pro team to play in Cuba since easing of restrictions

By Anne-Marie Garcia - Associated Press

US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shake hands during their meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015. The leaders of the United States and Cuba held their first formal meeting in more than half a century on Saturday, clearing the way for a normalization of relations that had seemed unthinkable to both Cubans and Americans for generations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Cuba officially removed from U.S. terror list

By Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

No country for old cars – except Cuba, where you can hail a taxi and ride in a well-preserved ’57 Chevy. (Photo by Ilene Perlman)

LARK GOULD: Visit Cuba, time travel in the Caribbean

By Lark Gould

Cuba's President Raul Castro pauses as he speaks to reporters on the tarmac of the Jose Marti airport after escorting France's President Francois Hollande to his plane in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Castro said Cuba and the U.S. will name ambassadors to each other’s countries as soon as the island is removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism later this month. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

EDITORIAL: Cubans try to control U.S. embassy in Havana

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Obama said Thursday in Jamaica that he will soon decide whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism now that the State Department has finished a review on the question. (Associated Press)

Raul Castro demands raise doubts, but Obama optimistic for U.S.-Cuba relations

By Ben Wolfgang - 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 **

Obama, Cuba President Raul Castro set to meet for first time since diplomatic thaw

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 28, 1999 file photo, Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Timlin, center, and teammates are congratulated by the Cuban national team following the Orioles' 3-2 win in extra innings in Havana, Cuba. The exhibition game was the first time a Major League team has played in Cuba since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The announcement on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 that the U.S. plans to restore diplomatic ties with the Caribbean nation could usher in a new era in U.S.-Cuba baseball relations, which were strained after the Castro revolution and the U.S.-led economic embargo. (AP Photo/John Moore, File) ** FILE**

LOVERRO: A Cuban connection through the love of baseball

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

A home owner sits in his living room at his home with rooms for rent in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. The wildly popular online home-sharing service Airbnb will allow American travelers to book lodging in Cuba starting Thursday in the most significant U.S. business expansion on the island since the declaration of detente between the two countries late last year. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Airbnb to Cuba in major U.S. business expansion

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

Tourists visit the Hamel Alley as a Cuban woman smokes a cigar in the background, in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 22, 2015. Tourism to Cuba is up sharply in the months since Washington and Havana announced in December that they would move toward a historic rapprochement. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Tourists flocking to Cuba ‘before the Americans come’

By Andrea Rodriguez and Peter Orsi - Associated Press

New York Congressmen Charles Rangel, right, and Gregory Meeks, left, are presented with New York Cosmos jerseys during a news conference in New York, Monday, March 16, 2015. Also pictured are New York Cosmos head coach Giovanni Savarese, second from left, sportscaster Fernando Fiore, center, and former Cosmos player Shep Messing, second from right. The New York Cosmos will be the first professional American sports team to play on Cuban soil in 16 years; the match against the Cuba National Team will take place on June 2, 2015, in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NY Cosmos and Cuba set June 2 for soccer friendly in Havana

By ERIC NUNEZ - Associated Press

A woman places the ringed label on a Hoyo de Monterrey cigar at the Corona cigar factory in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. Cuban cigar makers are licking their chops over new U.S. rules that let more Americans travel to the island and legally bring back as much as $100 worth in prized stogies for the first time in decades. Officials said during this week's annual cigar festival that this year alone, they expect to double sales of hand-rolled &quot;habanos&quot; on the island. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuban cigar makers anticipate big bucks from U.S. travelers

By Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

In this Dec. 10, 2014, file photo, Cuba’s President Raul Castro Ruz, right, watches President Barack Obama following his speech at the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto near Johannesburg. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Obama won’t meet Raul Castro’s demands, but doesn’t regret Cuba move

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Fidel Castro. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Fidel Castro supports U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties despite distrust of Washington

By Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

Miniature flags representing Cuba and the U.S. are displayed on the dash of an American classic car in Havana, Cuba. The Obama administration is putting a large dent in the U.S. embargo against Cuba as of Friday, significantly loosening restrictions on American trade and investment. The new rules also open up the communist island to greater American travel and allow U.S. citizens to start bringing home small amounts of Cuban cigars after more than a half-century ban. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

GENE POTEAT: The opening to Cuba is a windfall for the Castros

By Gene Poteat

In this Feb. 19, 2014 file photo, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto, left, and President Barack Obama pose for photographers at the North American Leaders Summit in Toluca, Mexico. Obama is hosting him at the White House Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, looking to his southern neighbor for help implementing his changing policies on immigration and Cuba. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Obama seeks Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s help to reform Cuba

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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

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DAVID R. SANDS: Cuba move a boon for chess

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times