Cubans drive past the US embassy during a rally calling for the end of the US blockade against Cuba, in Havana, March 28, 2021 (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





People stand at the door of their houses in a restricted area after cases of COVID-19 were detected in Havana, on April 7, 2021. Cuban authorities announced new measures to control a surge of COVID-19 with increased penalties for people who do not comply with health regulations and campaigns to persuade the population to take the risk more seriously. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





People wait to be vaccinated with the Cuban Abdala vaccine for COVID-19 at a doctors' office, decorated with an image of Fidel Castro and a Cuban flag, in the Alamar neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 14, 2021. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





People wait to be vaccinated with the Cuban Abdala vaccine for COVID-19 outside a doctors' office in Alamar on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 14, 2021. Cuba has begun to immunize people this week with its own vaccines, Abdala and Soberana 02, the only ones developed by a Latin American country. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, waves to members at the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba's opening session, as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, applauds at the Convention Palace, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Photo by Ariel Ley Royero/ACN via AP Photo)





A woman wears a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A woman walks past houses in quarantine amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Havana, Cuba, April 8, 2021. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





People pass in a vintage car in front of a rainbow flag hanging beside a Cuban flag at the Health Ministry building in Havana, Cuba, May 17, 2021. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pigeon fancier Freddy Moreno plays with pigeons at his balcony in Havana, Cuba, May 25, 2021. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pigeon fancier Yonisbel Santana poses for a photo at his rooftop in Havana, Cuba, May 18, 2021. Havana's pigeon keepers crane out of a window, intently watching the grey birds take flight. Mostly staying indoors due to the country's worst outbreak of COVID-19 since the coronavirus pandemic began in March last year, Cubans are increasingly breeding pigeons as a form of escape. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pigeons are seen next to their loft at a balcony in Havana, Cuba, May 25, 2021. Despite health and safety restrictions, Cuba has seen a rise in COVID-19 cases as the government opened its borders. So far in May, 29,006 people were reported to have COVID-19 with a daily average of 1,160 being admitted to hospital and 258 deaths, up from 229 deaths in April, according to official figures. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A nurse asks a family to get COVID vaccinations amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus in Havana, Cuba, June 17, 2021. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A makeshift light switch plate is decorated with an image of baked goods in the home of Yuliet Colon, a 39-year-old mother of two and a contributor to the Facebook page, “Recipes from the Heart” in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 2, 2021. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A Cuban baseball player hits the ball during a training session at the Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. A little over a week after the start of the Las Americas Baseball Pre-Olympic in Florida, the Cuban team does not have visas to travel to the United States. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





Albin Mustelier finalizes cigars in a press at the La Corona Tobacco factory where a worker reads to them in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Readers are on staff at the state-owned factories, a job the government has declared a “cultural patrimony of the nation”, and workers elect the readers and vote on what will be read. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





Yordanka Herrera smokes a cigar while making them at the La Corona Tobacco factory where a worker reads to workers in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (Photo by Ismael Francisco/AP Photo)





A worker takes a break next to the rails in restoration of the central train station In Havana, Cuba, Thursday, June 17, 2021. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A woman sings for people who have just been inoculated with the Cuban Abdala COVID-19 vaccine as they wait in the observation area in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)





A full “Super Pink Moon” rises above Havana on April 26, 2021. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





An Old American car drives through a flooded street in Havana, on June 30, 2021. Heavy rains and malfunctioning sewers cause the flooding of streets in Havana. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)





A woman shouts during a pro-government rally in Havana, Cuba, 11 July 2021. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel encouraged his supporters to take the streets as a response to protest against his governement. Thousands of Cuban took the streets on 11 July to protest against Cuba's government, in what is considered the first major protest in the last 60 years. (Photo by Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA/EFE)