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Willian Davis of the U.S. dunks the ball as Cuba's Marlon Diaz looks on during the FIBA Americas qualifiers for the 2023 Basketball World Cup, In Havana, Cuba, Monday, July 4, 2022. The U.S. defeated Cuba 87-64 .(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Davis Cup

Jul. 04, 2022 11:44 PM EDT

Cuba's pitcher Yoanni Yera Montalvo throws the ball during a training session at the Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. A little over a week after the start of the Las Americas Baseball Pre-Olympic in Florida, the Cuban team does not have visas to travel to the United States. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Cuba baseball squad without visas as Olympic qualifier nears

May. 18, 2021 10:43 PM EDT

People wait to be vaccinated with the Cuban Abdala vaccine for COVID-19 outside a doctors' office in Alamar on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 14, 2021. Cuba has begun to immunize people this week with its own vaccines, Abdala and Soberana 02, the only ones developed by a Latin American country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Cuba rolls out mass vaccines while awaiting study results

By Andrea Rodríguez May. 14, 2021 04:16 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 16, 2016 file photo, delegates attend a 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 Apr. 15, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Cuban-Americans send supplies to state health center in Cuba

By Andrea Rodíguez Dec. 10, 2020 06:37 PM EST
HAVANA (AP) — A shipment of medical supplies worth nearly $100,000 sent by Cuban-American businessmen and politicians destined for a Cuban state health center...

Young artists protest in front of the doors of the Ministry of Culture, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Dozens of Cuban artists demonstrated against the police evicting a group who participated in a hunger strike. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolerance

By Andrea Rodríguez Nov. 28, 2020 04:02 PM EST

Outcry as Cuba removes protesters defending rapper

By Andrea Rodríguez Nov. 27, 2020 05:12 PM EST
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities have cleared more than a dozen artists and activists from a home they have used as a center for anti-government protests that...

People wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus travel to the beach in a horse cart in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Cuba relaxes coronavirus restrictions 7 months into pandemic

By Andrea Rodríguez Oct. 12, 2020 03:01 PM EDT

Freddy Vallejo Jr., right, poses for a photograph with his brother Joel, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at the family vacation home in Key Largo, in the Florida Keys. Their grandfather Jorge Vallejo, a retired OB-GYN, and uncle Carlos Vallejo, who practiced internal medicine, died of the coronavirus within weeks of one another in South Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Lives Lost: Father, son doctors started as Cuban refugees

By Adriana Gomez Licon Sep. 30, 2020 12:01 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct 28, 2019 file photo, a worker wheels out a newly purchased freezer for a customer at a "dollar store" as shoppers wait to enter, in Havana, Cuba. A debit card backed by remittances that recently became popular in Cuba because people can use it to buy home appliances, food, and replacement parts has landed on the U.S. government’s restricted list, as of Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, in a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
US adds popular Cuban debit card to restricted list

By Andrea Rodríguez Sep. 28, 2020 05:08 PM EDT

A couple wearing masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus walk on the Malecon seawall at sunset 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 Sep. 01, 2020 01:09 PM EDT

A shopper walks inside the Mercabal wholesale market in Havana, Cuba, Friday, July 31, 2020. The government is letting private businesses buy wholesale for the first time. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
Economy tanking, Cuba launches some long-delayed reforms

By Andrea Rodríguez Aug. 06, 2020 10:47 PM EDT

People wearing protective face masks amid the spread of the new coronavirus enter a grocery store that accepts U.S. dollars in Havana, Cuba, Monday, July 20, 2020. Cuba has expanded the types of stores that accept dollars for payment to include food stores, as part of the government’s effort to capture much needed hard currency to shore up the island’s ailing economy. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Cuba opens foreign currency-only shops, ends tax on dollar

By Andrea Rodríguez Jul. 20, 2020 07:02 PM EDT

Workers do maintenance on the rooftop pool of the Capri Hotel during a lockdown affecting tourism to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Cuba's once-vibrant private hospitality sector, devastated by the three-month shutdown, remains closed to international business and will have to wait until later phases to try to begin to recover. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
New Cuban tourism system to isolate visitors from population

By Andrea Rodriguez Jun. 30, 2020 11:36 AM EDT

People stand outside a Western Union in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 12, 2020. Fincimex is a Cuban state corporation that works with foreign credit-card and money-transfer businesses and handles remittances sent to Cuba through Western Union by families in Cuban-American communities around the U.S. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
Trump policy change frightens Cubans, shows Washington chaos

By Michael Weissenstein And Matthew Lee Jun. 12, 2020 03:02 PM EDT

A man wears a mask featuring the smile of comic book character The Joker, amid the spread of the new coronavirus in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
In Latin America, face masks become a form of expression

By Andrea Rodriguez May. 06, 2020 10:34 AM EDT

Julio Alvarez poses for a photo with his vintage American cars that tourists use to joy ride around Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 24, 2020. While only essential work is allowed to continue amid a lockdown to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Alvarez's cars are grounded, tourists have disappeared and his drivers remain home. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
Pandemic crisis squeezes Cuba's fragile private businesses

By Andrea Rodriguez Apr. 29, 2020 02:32 PM EDT

Cuba: US embargo blocks coronavirus aid shipment from Asia

By Michael Weissenstein Apr. 03, 2020 02:22 PM EDT
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban officials say a shipment of coronavirus aid from Asia’s richest man, Jack Ma, has been blocked by the six-decade U.S. embargo on the island...

Several of the Cuban doctors and medical professionals that will depart for Italy to assist with the pandemic in the country pose for the media with a photo of Fidel Castro and flags of Italy and Cuba, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
Cuban docs fighting coronavirus around world, defying US

By Andrea Rodríguez Apr. 03, 2020 10:00 AM EDT