In this file photo taken on February 24, 2018 a farmer works at a tobacco plantation in San Juan y Martinez, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba. Cuba will hold the 20th edition of the Habanos Festival from February 26 to March 2. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





Gabriela Monteiro (R), 16, and Gisele Rodriguez, 15, use the internet at a hotspot in Havana, Cuba, September 12, 2017. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





In this March 15, 2016 file photo, images of revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos , Fidel Castro, Cuban President Raul Castro, and singer Compay Segundo, adorn a wall, in Havana, Cuba. Despite a series of reforms under Raul Castro, Cuba remains locked in grinding economic stagnation that has driven hundreds of thousands of Cubans to emigrate in search of better lives. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this April 12, 2018 photo, newly-weds Dariel Verdecia, a 24-year-old computer engineer, and Roxana Cruz, a 26-year-old chemical engineer, pose for their wedding portraits in a vintage American car on the coast of Havana, Cuba. The couple said President Raul Castro's stepping down will be another step forward in Cuba's history, giving an entrance to new generations, and have hope the economy will continue growing. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this October 22, 2013 file photo, a framed image of Argentine born Cuban revolutionary hero, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, hangs on a shelf at a state-run food store, with products tagged in ordinary Cuban pesos in Havana, Cuba. On April 19, 2018 Raul Castro will step down as president after a decade in office. The transition to a group of leaders from the “lost generation” will require potentially painful reforms, like the elimination of a dual-currency system that has created damaging economic distortions. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this April 13, 2018 photo, Santera Lourdes Nusa, 57, poses with her doll representing the Yoruba sea goddess “Yemaya” in Regla, across the bay from Havana, Cuba. Lourdes became a self-employed Santera at a very young age, reading people's futures. “The world is subject to change. Our country has always adopted a policy of improving relations with the entire world”, she said, adding Donald Trump's position toward Cuba will not change Cuba's position to open relations with the U.S. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this April 13, 2018 photo, musician Lazaro Martinez poses with his trombone on the Malecon sea wall in Havana, Cuba. Since 1991, Martinez has regularly played his music at the Malecon. “My politics are music”, said the 52-year-old. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this April 14, 2018 photo, National Ballet of Cuba dancer Daniela Gomez Perez stands on point as she poses outside the Capitol in Havana, Cuba. Gomez, who says Cubans love dancing, trusts the next generation of leaders will continue such traditions and that art will continue to be the engine of Cuban society. Gomez said she is proud to represent Cuba during a dance trip in May to Washington, Tampa and Chicago, and that the Cuban state has always supported dance. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this April 14, 2018 photo, Lazaro Rodriguez, 42, connects his cell phone at a public internet hot spot at night in Havana, Cuba. Lazaro, who studied baking and is currently working in maintenance, said he's seen very positive changes in the economy in recent years, and would like to see development continue. “The generation that comes after me will have much more. I lived 'the special period' in the 90s, and the country is still blocked”, referring to the U.S. embargo. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A car drives by a billboard that reads in Spanish “Ít was, is and will be done”, with a picture of Cuba's President Raul Castro on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Cuba's legislature opened the two-day session that is to elect a successor to President Castro. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A man wearing a shirt with the stars and stripes sits on the Malecon in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Cuba's legislature opened today a two-day session that is to elect a successor to President Castro. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, November 4, 2017 photo, pigeon breeder Eduardo Montufar removes a pigeon from its cage in Havana, Cuba. On thousands of roofs in Havana, boys and men can be found working on their coops or taking care of their birds and discussing the intricacies of a sport in which the pigeons are often referred to as “thieves” or “killers”. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, November 4, 2017 photo, a racing pigeon that belongs to breeder Ernesto Eng Lopez flies over Havana, Cuba. Pigeon breeders trade or sell the birds to other aficionados, adding to the ever-growing stock of available birds in the market and keeping the pigeon craze dynamic and growing throughout Cuba. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A young man looks at the sea sitting on the wall of an old abandoned pool in Cojimar, Cuba, Wednesday, September 13, 2017. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Back-dropped with pictures of the late Fidel Castro and President Raul Castro a school girl and a school boy raise their hands to confirm a vote as a woman casts her ballot for municipal elections in Havana, Cuba, Sunday November 26, 2017. The elections were postponed by a month to Nov. 26 after Hurricane Irma devastated part of the island last September. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A waitress at a private restaurant waits for customers in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, October 3, 2017. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A man moves a waste container in Havana, on September 15, 2017. Hit harder than expected by Hurricane Irma, Cuba faces months of difficult recovery and will need international aid to get back on its feet, UN agencies and experts say. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





An antique American-made automobile is parked in the old part of the city August 14, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. The first American secretary of state to visit Cuba since 1945, Secretary of State John Kerry visited the reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana, a symbolic act after the the two former Cold War enemies reestablished diplomatic relations in July. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)





In this January 22, 2018 photo, young wrestlers train in the street during the week-long student wrestling championship coined “The truth of my neighborhood”, organized by locals in the Chicharrones neighborhood of Santiago, Cuba. In this neighborhood, a wrestling-loving local man created a homegrown, neighborhood-backed program to support aspiring wrestlers from Cuba's economically struggling provinces. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A woman sleeps amid her candles, flowers and live hen after making her pilgrimage to Saint Lazarus National Sanctuary church, the shrine of “San Lazaro”, in honor of the religious icon revered as the protector of the sick, whose statue she placed against the column, in El Rincon, near Havana, Cuba, Sunday, December 17, 2017. The annual pilgrimage draws Roman Catholics, as well as followers of Afro-Cuban Santeria for whom Saint Lazarus symbolizes the deity of “Babalu-Aye”, introduced by African slaves brought to Cuba when it was a Spanish colony. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)