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    Elian Gonzalez is seized in Miami in 2000 and returned to Cuba.

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    FILE - In this July 31, 2004 file photo, Cuba's President Fidel Castro, left, and his brother, Minister of Defense Raul Castro, attend a Parliament session in Havana, Cuba. The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union devastated the Cuban economy, but the country limped along, first under Fidel and then, after he fell ill in 2006, under his brother Raul, head of the Cuban military. On Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, the U.S. and Cuba agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and open economic and travel ties, marking a historic shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island after a half-century of enmity dating back to the Cold War. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera, File)

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    FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2012 file photo, a soldier pauses to look at the outer casing of an old empty Soviet missile on exhibit as he works to paint it at the military complex Morro Cabana which is open to tourists in Havana, Cuba. The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev dared to cross it. On Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, the U.S. and Cuba agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and open economic and travel ties, marking a historic shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island after a half-century of enmity dating back to the Cold War. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate, File)

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    FILE - In this March 1, 2013 file photo, a worker selects cigars at the H. Upmann cigar factory, where people can take tours as part of the 15th annual Cigar Festival, in Havana, Cuba. Among those eager for access to a Cuban market cut off by an economic embargo are U.S. farmers, travel companies, energy producers and importers of rum and cigars. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

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    President John F. Kennedy poses in his White House office with Gen. David Shoup, left, Marine Corps Commandant, and Adm. George Anderson, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, Oct. 29, 1962. The chiefs met with the president to review the present situation in Cuba and operation of the U.S. naval blockade. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)

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    Cuban singer Francisco Repilado "Compay Segundo", 94, smokes a cigar he rolled himself Thursday Feb. 22, 2001, in Havana, Cuba. Cigar aficionados from as far away as Israel and Hong Kong visited tobacco farms and factories and savored new cigar brands this week during an annual celebration of this nation's world-famous stogies. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia)

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    A shrimp boat returning from Mariel, Cuba, is packed with Cuban refugees as it lands at Floriday's Key West Naval Base on April 30, 1980. President Jimmy Carter said in May 1980 that Cubans leaving the port of Mariel would be welcomed in the United States with "open hearts and open arms." That was after Castro opened the port in April 1980 to anyone who wanted to go. A few weeks later, Carter ordered the "freedom flotilla" stopped as America was overwhelmed by an average of 1,000 new arrivals daily. (AP Photo)

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    President John F. Kennedy appears on television on Oct. 22, 1962, to announce a naval blockade.

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    Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev embrace in 1960.

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    Fidel Castro celebrates with his troops in a photo taken in 1957.

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