Revellers wait inside a bus before performing at a carnival parade in Havana, Cuba, August 12, 2016. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Revellers get ready at Malecon seafront before performing at a carnival parade in Havana, Cuba, August 12, 2016. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Reveller Edersi Ruenes, 22, waits to perform at a carnival parade in Havana, Cuba, August 12, 2016. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A reveller smokes a cigarette before performing at a carnival parade in Havana, Cuba, August 12, 2016. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A sticker is seen on a Chevrolet car in Havana, Cuba, August 13, 2016. The sticker reads, “90 Happy”, in reference to the 90th birthday of former Cuban President Fidel Castro. (Photo by Enrique de la Osa/Reuters)





A dog walks past a painting depicting Cuba's former President Fidel Castro by Cuban artist Kcho in Havana, Cuba, August 13, 2016. (Photo by Enrique de la Osa/Reuters)





Lian Marrero edits a photo of Miami-based Cuban Javier Fontanella, with digital suit options at left, as he prepares his client's ID photo which he'll use for a Cuban citizenship application in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, May 26, 2016. Across Cuba and the world, tens of thousands of Cubans stare out of ID photos in elegant suits and dressy blouses they have never actually worn. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Private jeweler and electronics technician Gabriel La O repairs a mobile phone inside a government store where he rents work space in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Cuba says it will legalize small and medium-sized private businesses by adding a category of small, mid-sized and “micro” private business to the Communist party's master plan for social and economic development. The government currently allows private enterprise by self-employed workers in several hundred job categories. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A barber cuts his client's hair under the staircase of his apartment building in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A woman sells cigars, plastic bags and women's sanitary napkins, left, on the sidewalk alongside other women in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





Childrens clothes hang for sale inside a resident's living room in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





The Mexican tourist Carlos Lome Morales wears a Che Guevara flag over his shoulders, as he lines up at a street stall to buy churros, in Havana, Cuba,Monday, May 23, 2016. The flag has a quote by Guevara that reads in Spanish “To victory always”. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A tourist looks at quote by Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro explaining in Spanish, “Why we say homeland or death”, on a wall at the entrance of a landmark private restaurant in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, July 28, 2016. After a decade out of the public eye, Fidel Castro has surged back in the run-up to his birthday next month as the inspiration for Cubans who want to maintain Communist orthodoxy in the face of mounting pressures to loosen control. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





In this June 9, 2016 photo, a classic American car drives past an empty lot where a hotel is projected to be built along the Malecon sea wall in Havana, Cuba. A year and a half into normalization with the U.S., Cuba faces either an exciting new era of foreign investment or another in a string of false starts. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A poster of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro is seen on a wall in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, August 13, 2016. As Castro celebrates his 90th birthday, the Cuban government has taken a low-key approach to Castro's birthday. There are no massive rallies or parades planned, no publicly announced visits from global dignitaries. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A Cuban flag hangs across a street in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, August 13, 2016. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





Posters with the portrait of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, Cuban President Raul Castro, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hang in a butcher shop in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, August 13, 2016. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A poster of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro is seen fixed on the counter of a state rationing store or bodega as people do their shopping in central Havana, Cuba, Saturday, August 13, 2016. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





A poster with the image of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro is reflected on a mirror, right, as a TV shows the Rio Olympic Games at a house in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, August 13, 2016. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A visitor stands in front of a photo of Cuban leader Fidel Castro during an exhibition at the Diversity Hall in Old Havana, Cuba, Friday, August 12, 2016. Castro will mark his 90th birthday Saturday. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A man surfs the internet with his cell phone backdropped by decorated storefront windows celebrating Fidel Castro's upcoming 90th birthday, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, August 12, 2016. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this June 12, 2016 photo, Cuban American Fontaine Capel, center, travels on a regular bus line in Havana, Cuba. Capel was brought to the island by CubaOne, a new program inspired by the reestablishment of diplomatic and business ties between the U.S. and Cuba. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





In this June 12, 2016 photo, the young Cuban American Maggie Sivit, left, looks at a youth jump into the ocean from the Havana's waterfront in Cuba. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A man takes a shower on a street from water coming from a drainpipe as it rains in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. During the last couple of weeks short but intense tropical downpours have been coming down of Havana every afternoon. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)





Boys race down a slope using makeshift carts know as “chivichanas” in downtown Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Cuba marks the anniversary of the July 26, 1953 rebel attack led by Fidel and Raul Castro on the Moncada military barracks. The attack is considered the beginning of the revolution that culminated with dictator Fulgencio Batista's ouster. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)