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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2019 file photo, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, center, visits with residents after arriving in Caimanera, Cuba. A new decree approved by Diaz-Canel Oct. 8 and made public Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, says prosecutors can approve eavesdropping and surveillance of any form of communication, without consulting a judge as required in many other Latin American countries. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, File)

Cuba lays out rules governing surveillance, informants

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

US beats Cuba 4-0 to reach Nations League semifinals

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Cuba accuses US diplomat of supporting illegal actions

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel greets residents as he arrives in Caimanera, Cuba, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Díaz-Canel is making his first trip to the town of Caimanera, the closest point in Cuba to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. He arrived on Thursday morning. ( AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuba grants unprecedented access to presidential tour

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Cuba medical program becomes source of controversy

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press

Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia pose for photos standing next to a self-portrait of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, accompanied by the museum director Jorge Fernandez, at the Bellas Artes Museum in Old Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, Pool)

In Cuba, Spanish king calls for political diversity

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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018 file photo, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel arrives for a meeting with the United Nations secretary-general, on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. Díaz-Canel is making his first trip to the town of Caimanera, the closest point in Cuba to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. He arrived on Thursday morning, Nov. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Cuban president says US plan to pressure Cuba failing

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2019 file photo United States defender Sergiño Dest looks to pass the ball during an international friendly soccer match against the Mexico in East Rutherford, N.J. Dest received a lot of advice but in the end made up his own mind in deciding to play with the U.S. national team rather than switch to the Netherlands. The 18-year-old outside back, who has a Surinamese-American father and Dutch mother, played for the U.S. in the Under-17 and Under-20 World Cups. &quot;It's a hard decision, of course, because you are for both of them,&quot; Dest said Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 two days before he likely will make his senior national team competitive debut. (AP Photo/Steve Luciano, file)

Dest: Best decision was stay with US and not switch to Dutch

By MARK DIDTLER - Associated Press

Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia walk in Old Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (Jorge Luis Baños/Pool Photo via AP)

Spanish king, Cuban president meet in Havana

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Cuba: We offer only moral support for Latin America protests

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Houston Astros take batting practice for baseball's World Series Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Houston. The Houston Astros face the Washington Nationals in Game 1 on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

World Series: How the Nationals and Astros match up

By MIKE FITZPATRICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 26, 2019 file photo, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, second left, and former President Raul Castro, raise their arms in unison during an event celebrating Revolution Day, accompanied by Commander of the Cuban Revolution Ramiro Valdes, left, and Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Central Committee, in Bayamo, Cuba. Cuba’s top legislative body will no longer include members of the country’s historical generation of former rebels, part of a broader political reform that started to go into effect on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. (Omara Garcia/Agencia Cubana de Noticias via AP File)

US slaps new sanctions on Cuba over human rights, Venezuela

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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

In this Aug. 6, 2019, photo, Barbara Rodriguez poses for a photo outside of her home in Hialeah, Fla. Her husband, Pablo Sanchez, is seeking asylum in the U.S., but was placed in detention and is now facing deportation to Cuba. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Trump administration ramps up deportations to Cuba

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

United States' Weston McKennie, left, is congratulated by Christian Pulisic (10) after scoring a goal on Cuba in the first minute of the first half of a CONCACAF Nations League soccer match Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

McKennie has fastest hat trick as US overwhelms Cuba 7-0

By BEN NUCKOLS - Associated Press

FILE - Int his July 24, 2019 file photo, a Statue of the Republic covered in Russian gold and donated by President Vladimir Putin stands in the Capitol building in Havana, Cuba. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrives Thursday, Oct. 2, 109 in Cuba, long the principal ally in Latin America of the former Soviet Union, for a visit that some see as confirmation of a new closeness precisely at a time when the island is going through a new economic crisis and confronting new pressure from the United States. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

AP Explains: Why does Medvedev’s visit to Cuba matter?

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla talks during an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 in New York. The foreign minister says he believes improvements in relations with the United States are irreversible despite the Trump administration's hardening of the embargo on the island. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Cuban foreign minister: Warming with US is irreversible

By IAN PHILLIPS and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Aug. 28, 2019 photo, a giant African snail makes its away along a tube inside a building in Havana, Cuba. With their shiny, brilliantly striped shells and bodies up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, the snails have become public enemy No. 1 for epidemiologists on the island as many frightened citizens grow to fear their ability to transmit diseases and harm crops. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuba battles plague of giant snails

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 8, 2019 file photo, a protestor holds a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: &quot;It's not a fashion. It's the fourth wave. Legal abortion is an obligation of the state,&quot; during a march to mark International Women's Day in Mexico City. Mexican women are marching Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, for greater reproductive rights, including access to abortions, in one of the world’s most restrictive regions for reproductive choice. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

AP Explains: Abortion rights in Mexico and Latin America

By AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens during an event hosted by the Department of State's Energy Resources Governance Initiative in New York, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US hits Cuba’s Raul Castro, family with travel ban

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