- PHOTO TAKEN APR1961 - Cuban President Fidel Castro (3rd row, R) enters a public trial for captured members (seated) of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Havana in this April 1961 file photo. Forty-five years after it defeated a CIA-trained invasion force at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba still sees the U.S. as the biggest threat to its socialist society. 1,500 Cuban exiles, organized and armed by the CIA, came ashore April 1961 in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's government. The invaders never got beyond the mosquito-infested swamps surrounding the Bay of Pigs, as Castro's fledgling revolutionary government scrambled to defend itself. Picture taken April 1961. 

Cuban refugees hold up empty jugs as they beg for water while floating on the high seas in home-made rafts about 45 miles south of Key West, August 21. They had been floating at sea at least two days, hoping to reach the United States 

5-year-old Cuban refugee Roberto Santorez walks past a row of barbed wire at the Camp Buckeley detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base August 22 

Cuban refugees stand inside the tent city compound at Guantanamo Naval Base August 27. Cuban refugees rescued by the United States Coast Guard in the Florida Straits were transferred to the holding camp manned by the United States military 

Cuban fishermen check their lines as a large oceangoing ship flying the U.S. flag ship looms in the background January 2. The ship, moored right in front of Cuba navy headquarters is the R/V Seward Johnson, an oceanography exploration vessel equipped with a mini-submarine, registered in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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Fascinated Cuban children enjoy new sweets and toys vending machines installed in a shop in Old Havana November 18. The machines are thought to be the first such machines available to the public in Cuba. Queues of people watched and waited to use the several dozen new machines, which take 25-cent pieces. Although almost all Cubans are paid in local peso currency, many have access to dollars through remittances from abroad, informal work, or jobs with foreign companies.

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Albel DeJesus Acosta (L), a former Cuban political prisoner, chats with supporter Alberto Espinosa (R) January 16 as he begins his first day of a hunger strike in Miami. Acosta, a 33-year-old Cuban exile who has a friend in a Cuban prison, is protesing Fidel Castro's human rights record.

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Elian Gonzalez, held by Donato Dalrymple, is taken by U.S. federal agents from his Miami relatives April 22. U.S. federal authorities stormed the Miami house where Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez was sleeping early on Saturday morning, Dalrymple is one of the two sport fishermen that rescued him at sea. REUTERS/Alan Diaz/Pool (UNITED STATES)

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U.S. Army Military Police escort a detainee to his cell during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray in Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in this file photograph taken January 11, 2002 and released January 18, 2002. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on May 1, 2011, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. "Justice has been done," U.S. President Barack Obama declared in a hastily called, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive head of the militant Islamic group behind a series of deadly bombings across the world. REUTERS/Stringer/Files (CUBA) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE 

Cuban civilian workers make their way to the northeast gate of Guantanamo Naval Base at first light, January 15. Around twenty civilians from the communist country work on the base, the only American installation in the world operating on communist soil.

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Cuban fishermen check their lines as a large ocean-going ship flying the U.S. flag ship looms in the background in Havana, Cuba January 2, 1998. REUTERS/Rafael Perez 

A Cuban girl eats in front of a damaged home in the town Piocuac, in
central Cuba, November 7, 2001 after Hurricane Michelle swept through
the island. Michelle was the most powerful storm to hit Cuba since 1944
and has left five confirmed fatalities so far, as well as thousands of
destroyed and damaged homes. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Fidel Castro (R) listen to the Cuban national anthem at the baseball stadium "Latinoamericano" in Havana, May 14, 2002. Carters visit, the most important by an American since President Fidel Castro took power in a
1959 revolution, is an attempt to bridge four decades of Cold War feuding between Washington and Havana. REUTERS/Rafael Perez 

Players of the Twin State Peregrines of Vermont and New Hampshire drink water before a game with their Cuban counterparts at a convent on the outskirts of Havana August 10, 2008. Young baseball players from the United States, the first team of Little Leaguers known to visit Cuba since 2000, and Cuba squared off on Sunday. REUTERS/Claudia Daut (CUBA) 

Cuban students hold photographs of victims from events such as the Bay of Pigs invasion and the bombing of a Cuban plane as a news ticker flashes on the U.S. diplomatic mission facade reading "Hugo Chavez affirms the...." in Havana February 6, 2006. [Cuba hoisted 138 huge black flags, each centered with a white star, blocking an electronic sign beaming messages from the mission's facade and in representation of the nation's mourning for over 3,400 Cubans killed by U.S. sponsored violence since the 1959 revolution.] 

Former Cuban exile Jose Temprana, 105, wears his shirt before attending a ceremony of naturalization to become a U.S. citizen in Miami June 29, 2007. Temprana, born in Cuba September 26, 1901, worked with his sons as a sponge diver and lobster fisherman in a small fishing village in the Pinar del Rio Province. During the Cuban Revolution he and three of his sons opposed Fidel Castro and were imprisoned in 1964 for 30 years. He moved to Miami 12 years ago. The U.S. Senate dealt a fatal blow on Thursday to President George W. Bush's overhaul of immigration policy, an emotional issue that has divided Americans in the run-up to next year's presidential election. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES) 

An employee prepares a box which contains the coffin of a deceased man who will be transported to Cuba from Miami's International airport, July 30, 2008. In 1994 Funeraria Nacional funeral home began shipping recently deceased Cuban exiles back across the Florida Straits to their final resting place in Cuba. An exception to the otherwise tight U.S. trade embargo imposed on Cuba in 1962, the airborne burial business has been moving ahead steadily ever since. Nacional is located just a few blocks north of Miami's Little Havana district, the traditional heartland of exile opposition to former Cuban President Fidel Castro. Many older exiles among the 650,000 Cubans in Miami have vowed they would never return to the island, without deep-rooted change there and until Castro and his younger brother President Raul Castro are finally out of power. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES) 

An effigy of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is seen inside a coffin during a protest against the Colombian singer Juanes concert in Cuba, at Miami's little Havana in Florida September 20, 2009. Cubans were expected to fill Havana's massive Revolution Square on Sunday for a concert by Colombian singer Juanes and a lineup of top Spanish-language musicians who hope art can do what politics has not -- bring together Cubans here and in the United States. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES POLITICS CONFLICT) 

An anti-Castro Cuban exile reacts during a protest against the "Peace Without Borders" concert in Cuba, at Miami's little Havana, Florida September 20, 2009. Cubans were expected to fill Havana's massive Revolution Square on Sunday for a concert by Colombian singer Juanes and a lineup of top Spanish-language musicians who hope art can do what politics has not -- bring together Cubans here and in the United States. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES POLITICS CONFLICT) 

Reina Luisa Tamayo carries a box containing the ashes of her son Orlando Zapata Tamayo as family members carry a Cuban flag outside the U.S. Interests Section (USINT) in Havana June 8, 2011. The body of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, whose death by hunger strike last year provoked international criticism of Cuba, was exhumed and cremated, enabling his family to take his remains when they emigrate to the United States. The Cuban government said he was nothing more than a common criminal, but his death brought condemnation of Cuba's human rights situation from the United States and Europe and contributed to Cuba's decision to release its political prisoners. The family was to leave with his ashes on Thursday for Miami, center of the Cuban exile community in the United States. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Marilina Barcesia, who is four-month's-old, rests in the arms of her mother at the William Soler Children's Heart Center as she waits for surgery in Havana October 7, 2013. For the 22nd consecutive year, Cuba will ask the United Nations to condemn the United States economic embargo against the island, a top Cuban official announced on Monday, accusing Washington of tightening sanctions in place for more than half a century. Cuba held the news conference, where it announced the draft U.N. resolution calling for an end to the embargo, at the William Soler children's heart center to emphasize that the sanctions do not discriminate between the country's political leadership and innocent people and amounts to what it calls "genocide." The hospital's director, Eugenio Selman-Housein Sosa, said his center often lacked the most modern equipment and medicines because U.S. companies predominated in some sectors and Washington's regulations on checking end-users made business next to impossible. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH BUSINESS) 

A anti-Castro Cuban exile reacts after the announcement of restoring diplomatic ties between Cuba and United States, at an area knows as 'Little Havana' in downtown Miami, Florida December 17, 2014. The U.S. and Cuba agreed on Wednesday to restore diplomatic ties that Washington severed more than 50 years ago, and President Barack Obama called for an end to the long economic embargo against its old Cold War enemy. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Alan Gross, recently released from prison in Cuba, thrusts his fist in the air as he is mentioned by President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

Kevin Lachaise, 8, watches a recorded TV show through the screen of a computer at the living room of his home in downtown Havana February 10, 2015. Netflix Inc launched its movie and TV streaming service in Cuba on Monday, joining the list of U.S. companies looking to take advantage of thawing diplomatic relations between the United States and the communist-ruled island country. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini (CUBA - Tags: BUSINESS MEDIA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) 

Michel Gonzalez, 39, rolls cigars at the H. Upmann cigar factory in Havana, February 26, 2015. Cuban cigar-maker Habanos S.A. envisions gaining 25 percent to 30 percent of the U.S. premium cigar market if the United States lifts its trade embargo on Cuba, potentially selling 70 million to 90 million cigars per year, the company said on Monday. The prospect of the United States lifting is 53-year-old embargo improved after the United States and Cuba announced on December 17 their intention to restore diplomatic relations. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini (CUBA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES) 

Georganne Nixon, wife of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, stands near a 1954 Chevrolet car at a hotel in Havana March 2, 2015. The most important U.S. agricultural delegation to visit Cuba in more than a decade began three days of meetings on Monday, hoping to find potential business partners and urge the U.S. Congress to lift the trade embargo against the Caribbean nation. Two former agriculture secretaries, a number of state agriculture officials and representatives of various state farm bureaus are among the 95 people whose visit was organized by the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba, formed after the December 17 announcement that the United States and Communist-run Cuba would restore diplomatic relations. REUTERS/Stringer (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS AGRICULTURE TRANSPORT) 

Chairs are prepared before a news conference in Washington, after the fourth round of U.S.-Cuba talks to re-establish diplomatic relations and re-open embassies, May 22, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas 

Private vendor Lionel Hernandez (C), 47, waves the U.S. and Cuban national flags moments before the match between New York Cosmos and Cuba's national team in Havana June 2, 2015. The New York Cosmos dominated Cuba 4-1 on Tuesday in a soccer friendly meant to promote better relations between the United States and Cuba and demonstrate that baseball-mad Cuba is also becoming a soccer nation. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Lizmaria Perez, 7, (C), chats with friends before a rehearsal of the choral group Sol Fa which she is part of before the presentation of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus Young Men’s Ensemble, a U.S. children's choir, in Havana, June 15, 2015. The Los Angeles children's chorus is seeking to help ease old Cold War tensions between Cuba and the United States with an 11-day tour of the island nation amidst a historic detente. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Retiree Lance Veit (C), 65, from California, enjoys a ride in a vintage car at the seafront Malecon during a cultural exchange trip in Havana, July 11, 2015. Last week, the United States and Cuba formally agreed to restore diplomatic relations as of July 20, fulfilling a pledge made in December when the longtime foes announced detente. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Ground crew hold U.S. and Cuban flags near a recently landed JetBlue airplane, the first commercial scheduled flight between the United States and Cuba in more than 50 years, at the Abel Santamaria International Airport in Santa Clara, Cuba, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini 

A passenger holds his Cuban passport as he boards Jet Blue Flight 387 to Santa Clara, Cuba, at Fort Lauderdale International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Skipper 

Passengers board the JetBlue Airways flight, the first regularly scheduled commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than half a century, at Fort Lauderdale International airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dastin