A boy plays inside a vintage car as it is being fixed in downtown Havana, Cuba August 21, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Human resources worker Carmen Oivedo (R) enjoys the sea at the beach in Varadero, Cuba, August 26, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Tourists dance during a salsa class at the beach in Varadero, Cuba, August 26, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Human resources worker Carmen Oivedo (R) talks to her daughters during their vacations at the beach in Varadero, Cuba, August 26, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pre-university students walk in downtown Havana to mark the first day of class for the 2015-2016 course, September 1, 2015. Universal free education is one of the pillars of the socialist society built in Cuba since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pre-university students hold a Cuban flag as they walk in downtown Havana to mark the first day of class for the 2015-2016 course, September 1, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pre-university students walk in downtown Havana to mark the first day of class for the 2015-2016 course, September 1, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pre-university students pose for a photo during the first day of class for the 2015-2016 course in downtown Havana, September 1, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pre-university students chat at a park in Havana during the first day of class of the 2015-2016 course, September 1, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A cross on the roof of a platform that will be used for the mass of Pope Francis, is seen near an image of the revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara at the Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, September 3, 2015. (Photo by Enrique de la Osa/Reuters)





A street vendor passes by a poster advertising the visit of Pope Francis to Cuba in downtown Havana, September 4, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Pictures of Cuba's President Raul Castro (2nd L) and former president Fidel Castro are displayed beside a poster advertising the visit of Pope Francis to Cuba in a butcher shop in downtown Havana, September 4, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





An image of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti is displayed in a state-run bakery in downtown Havana, September 4, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A woman wears a sticker advertising the visit of Pope Francis to Cuba during the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba, on the streets of downtown Havana, September 8, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Janeli Cardenas, 8, looks at the camera during the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba, on the streets of downtown Havana, September 8, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A child waits for the beginning of the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba, on the streets of downtown Havana, September 8, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





People take pictures during the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba, on the streets of downtown Havana, September 8, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Workers in a restaurant take pictures during the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba, on the streets of downtown Havana, September 8, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Youths react from a balcony during the annual procession of Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuba, on the streets of downtown Havana, September 8, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela attends activities during a visit to the “Solidarity with Panama” school for children with special needs in Havana September 10, 2015. Varela is in Cuba on an official visit. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





David Marino, 27, is an assistant to the driver in this large Taxi which are referred to as Almendrones, in the Old Havana Neighborhood. Currently, many parts for the old taxis are handmade, smuggled in or bought for high prices. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Taxi drivers are pictured soliciting business in the Old Havana Neighborhood. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Milagro Cairo Campo, 45, ia pictured in a taxi. She is heading home from the Old Havana Neighborhood. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Diosbel Arias Destradi sells produce in the Old Havana Neighborhood. He picks them up each morning at 5am in a market in the outskirts of the city. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Anet Arley, Abad Alfonso sells produce in the Old Havana Neighborhood. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Taxi drivers are pictured soliciting business in the Old Havana Neighborhood. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





The ocean and Havana are pictured from an Old Havana rooftop. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





People get out of a taxi in the Old Havana Neighborhood. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Leonardo Leiva, 45, a restaurant owner in the historic center of Havana, Cuba repairs an open sign in the doorway of his place, Don Pucho, which is named after his father on the night of Thursday January 22, 2015. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Cubans are pictured ordering food from a window on Obispo Street in the historic center of Havan, Cuba on the night of Thursday, January 22, 2015 in front of La Casa de la Musica in Havana, Cuba. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





As the sun sets on the Malecon in Havana on Friday January 23, 2015, Nelson Boo Gonzalez, 26, left, helps his wife of only hours, Yunaisis Conconon Isaac, 25, with her necklace. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





As the sun sets on the Malecon in Havana on Friday January 23, 2015, Surenis Angulo de la Paz, 24, center, dances as group of locals play music around her. Behind her is Fidel Lopez, 55. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





As the sun sets on the Malecon in Havana on Friday January 23, 2015, Yurania Fabie, 31, left, is embraced by her boyfriend, Eduardo Fromata, 25. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Late at night on Saturday, January 24, 2015, three young Cubans, from left to right, Daikelis Castellanos Silot, 15, Randol Rodriguez, 18, and Yasila Cateyano Suarez, 14, dance on the monument to the 266 U.S. sailors that died aboard the USS Maine which exploded in February 1898. The monument is fraught with symbolism of the complex relationship between the United States and Cuba. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





At Manuel Valdes Rodriguez Municipal Primary School in Havana, Cuba, school children shows their patriotism by saluting the flag and singing the national anthem before going to their classrooms in the morning. The anthem was written during the Independence War and says to die for the motherland is to live. Schoolchildren wear red kerchiefs and are referred to as pioneers, an organization founded to encourage the values of education and social responsibility among children and adolescents. Many go on to join the Young Communist League. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Young Cuban college students carry the flag of the Young Communist League and the 26th of July Movement. On Tuesday January 27, 2015 in Havana, Cuba young students participated in the March of the Torches from the University of Havana through the streets to the Malecon oceanfront. The annual march commemorates the birth of Cuban writer, poet, journalist and political activist Jose Marti who lived only a short life but died as a national hero dying in 1895 during the Cuban war of independence. Also participating in the event were Cuban Vice Presidents, the recently freed five Cuban intelligence agents and olympic athletes. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





A group of men play dominos in the Verdado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba on January 28, 2015. The group of friends have been playing together about three times a week for the past 25 years. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





At Manuel Valdes Rodriguez Municipal Primary School in Havana, Cuba, fifth grader, Cristian Gongora, 10, shows his patriotism by saluting the flag and singing the national anthem before going to his classroom in the morning. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





At the Casa de la Musica Piano Bar, El Tun Tun, in the neighborhood of Mirimar in Havana, two women talk as musician Ray Fernandez plays on stage. The bar attracts a new generation of hip young Cubans. Many young people in Cuba idolize the Unites Sates, and display little patience for the state-run economic model that has left much of their country in Ruins. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Cuban workers are pictured pushing a cart of garlic and onions that they will sell privately through the street of Havana Cuba in a neighborhood close to the train station in Havana Cuba on Friday, January 30 2015. Since taking over for his brother in 2006, Raul Castro has allowed Cubans to run small businesses and there is no longer a stigma to entrepreneurship or private businesses. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Cubans are pictured walking on the street in Central Havana as the sun sets behind them. As the long Castro era is coming to a close, Cuba is once more grappling with the question of what, exactly, was the purpose of the revolution. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





As the sun rises over Old Havana on January 31, 2015, Odalys Monroy, 49, stands in a pair of American Flag pants as she talks to a bici taxi driver on the way to work. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





As the sun rises over Old Havana on January 31, 2015, cars drive by polluting the air as pedestrians make their way to work. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





A European tourist throws his arm into the air as the historic car he hired bearing an American flag, drives down the historic Malecon on the evening of January 31, 2015. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





At the Anacaguita State owned agricultural market in Camaguey, Manuel Zayas, 29, owner, butchers a pig in the back room. Signs in the front of the store advertise the revolution and the Cuban Five. Camagüey is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city with more than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Barber, Debray Alonzo, 47, shows the tattoo of OBAMA on each finger of his right hand. He says he likes the United States and President Obama, so he wanted to have his name tattooed. On the right is Joel Vallero, 26, who is getting a haircut in the small shack in the poor neighborhood of Juruquey, in Camaguey. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





A sign painted on a building at a train stop in Camaguey features a picture of Fidel Castro and reads, The youth of Camaguey are faithful to their ideas. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Neighbors in the poor neighborhood of Portuondo in Santiago, Cuba sit by mural that translates to Long Live the Revolution. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Wholesalers line up hours before the sun rises to sell and buy vegetables at El Trigal, a cooperative agricultural market in Boyeros, on the outskirts of Havana. This long line of trucks are filled with vegetables to sell at the market. Farmers and wholesalers come from every area of the island to sell to Cubans who sell vegetables in stores or stands. People pay fees to sell and also to buy. Many Cubans complain about the high cost of food, including vegetables, compared to their salary, and are hopeful that an improved relationship with The United States will bring imported goods and lower prices to Cuba. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Wholesalers line up hours before the sun rises to sell and buy vegetables at El Trigal, a cooperative agricultural market in Boyeros, on the outskirts of Havana. Buyer, Alehin Fernandez, walks away from his car after loading some food. Farmers and wholesalers come from every area of the island to sell to Cubans who sell vegetables in stores or stands. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Wholesalers line up hours before the sun rises to sell and buy vegetables at El Trigal, a cooperative agricultural market in Boyeros, on the outskirts of Havana. A buyer loads his bicycle with vegetables. Farmers and wholesalers come from every area of the island to sell to Cubans who sell vegetables in stores or stands. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)





Jaimee Vilarino, 3, (L), plays with a mobile phone during a party for Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. Santeria adherents can only hope the upcoming visit from Pope Francis will somehow nudge the Church toward recognizing the millions of Cubans who identify with both religious traditions. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Offerings for spirits are seen in a house during a Santeria ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





An altar produced for a ceremony of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance is seen in a house in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria practitioner Adriana Millarez, 26, gets some fresh air during a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





People dance during the party of Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





People prepare to take part into a ceremony of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A woman reacts during the party of Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria practitioner Yuris Landis, a 27-year-old nurse, smokes a cigar during a ceremony of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Public park caretaker Idalberto Diaz, 55, rests in a bed beside his 6-month-old granddaughter Lia, before a ceremony in a house known as Cabildo, or religious house by Santeria tradition, in downtown Havana, August 7, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





People take part in the party of Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Yensy Villarreal, 9, (C), who lives in Miami, dances in the backyard of his home with friends in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Yensy Villarreal, 9, (C), who lives in Miami, dances in the backyard of his home with friends and his mother (R) in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Dancers Leannis Ortega, 20, (C), and Nairobis Placers, 20, (L), take part in the party of Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Coffeeshop worker Yudi Linares, 37, takes a selfie during the party of Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





People talk during the party of Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A girl dressed in white in accordance with the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria stands at her doorstep in downtown Havana, September 8, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Denis Millares, 7, (C) sleeps as people dance during a ceremony of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria practitioners undergo a brief fit of spirit-induced convulsions during a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria practitioner Lyan Hernandez, 36, (C) undergoes a brief fit of spirit-induced convulsions during a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A Santeria practioner rests after a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Police officers check a recently robbed shop of Santeria articles in downtown Havana, August 21, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria believers get some fresh air on a balcony during a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A cactus, believed by Santeria followers to give protection for the house, hangs on the door of a house in downtown Havana, August 28, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A woman dressed in white in accordance with the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria sits at her doorstep in downtown Havana, August 28, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Gilian Caballero, 8, holds a pigeon for sale used for Santeria rituals in downtown Havana, August 4, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A Santeria practitioner dances during a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria practitioner Humberto Cuevas (C) undergoes a brief fit of spirit-induced convulsions during a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria's sacred symbols are seen in a house during a ceremony to attract spirits of dead ancestors to ask for guidance in downtown Havana, August 18, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





School teacher Niurka Mola, 50, holds a doll which symbolises the African sea goddess Yemaya before a ceremony in her home, a house known as Cabildo, or religious house by Santeria tradition, in downtown Havana, August 7, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Santeria practitioner Miguel Angel, 36, sings religious songs at his home in downtown Havana, August 28, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





People take part in the party of Yensy Villarreal, 9, (not pictured), in celebration for becoming a Santero after passing a year-long rite of passage in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, Havana, July 5, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Followers of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria pray for the spirits in front of an altar and an image of Jesus Christ before a ceremony in a house known as Cabildo, or religious house by Santeria tradition, in downtown Havana, August 7, 2015. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)