An apple vendor stands amid playing children in La Coloma, Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, Wednesday, October 5, 2022 (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





The Ramos family cooks dinner over a fire outside their storm-damaged home that continues without electricity one week after Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, Wednesday, October 5, 2022 (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Children play ball in La Coloma, Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, Wednesday, October 5, 2022 (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Cuban Iyanifa Aimeé Ibáñez (C) hugs a brother of religion during the celebration of her anniversary as Iyanifa on September 13, 2022, in Havana's Los Sitios neighbourhood. More than 20 years after breaking the gender barrier in the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion, two priestesses recently trod new ground once again by carrying out a divinatory ritual previously reserved for men. (Photo by Adalberto Roque/AFP Photo)





A resident carries a sheet of corrugated iron recovered from a tobacco house damaged during the passage of Hurricane Ian in Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, on October 13, 2022. The powerful Category 3 Hurricane Ian battered western Cuba on September 27th. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





Ballet dancer students perform during the opening gala of the 27th Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival of Havana at the National Theater in Havana, Cuba on October 20, 2022. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A National Ballet of Cuba dancer performs during the 27th Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival of Havana at the National Theater in Havana on October 20, 2022. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





Liusba Grajales, left, puts makeup on her daughter Ainhoa as her partner Lisset Diaz Vallejo gets ready as they prepare to get married in Santa Clara, Cuba, Friday, October 21, 2022. The couple, which has been together for seven years, is one of the first to make the decision to get legally married in Cuba following the new Family Code, which opened up everything from equal marriage to surrogate mothers. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





Laura Gil, center, stands with her mother Lisset Diaz Vallejo, center, outside the the notary office after her mother married her partner Liusba Grajales, right, in Santa Clara, Cuba, Friday, October 21, 2022. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





A wedding cake that reads in Spanish “Congratulations wives” awaits the celebration of newlyweds Lisset Diaz Vallejo and Liusba Grajales on their wedding day in Santa Clara, Cuba, Friday, October 21, 2022. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





Liusba Grajales smokes in the kitchen as her fiancee Lisset Diaz Vallejo exits the bathroom, before they leave for the notary office to get married in Santa Clara, Cuba, Friday, October 21, 2022. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





Brides Lisset Diaz Vallejo, left, and Liusba Grajales travel in a taxi to the notary office to get married in Santa Clara, Cuba, Friday, October 21, 2022. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





A youth uses his smartphone as he and a friend walk along the Malecon seawall in Havana, Cuba, Friday, November 25, 2022. Ever-widening access to the internet is offering a new opportunity for Cubans looking for hard-to-obtain basic goods: online shopping. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Cuba's National Ballet dancers perform during the 27th Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival of Havana at the National theater in Havana on October 28, 2022. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





Dancers of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC), participate in the Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival of Havana, in Havana, Cuba, 02 November 2022. The Alicia Alonso International Ballet Festival of Havana held a special gala on Wednesday for the classical ballet Giselle, as part of the tributes to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC) to be celebrated in 2023. (Photo by Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA/EFE)





A fisherman holds his rod at the Malecon seawall where the Turkish flagged power ship “Karadeniz Irem Sultan” arrives to Havana Bay in Cuba, Tuesday, November 15, 2022. The ship carrying an electricity plant has arrived to help Cuba meet its demand for electricity. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





Cuban fans of the Brazilian soccer team talk before the match between Brazil and Switzerland, next to a rickshaw decorated with an image of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Bauta, Cuba, Monday, November 28, 2022. People in the municipality of Bauta have been getting together for every World Cup over the last 20 years to support Brazil, who won 1-0. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Boxer Giselle Bello Garcia, left, watches as fellow female boxers train in Havana, Cuba, Monday, December 5, 2022. Cuban officials announced on Monday that women boxers would be able to compete for the first time ever. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Boxer Legnis Cala, center, talks with fellow female boxers during a training session in Havana, Cuba, Monday, December 5, 2022. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)