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Cuba-U.S. ties

After more than 50 years, the United States and Cuba are set to restore diplomatic relations.<br>

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Cuba-U.S. ties

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  1. Cuba-U.S. ties

  2. A soldier of the Cuban Armed Forces stands next to U.S.-built armaments captured after some 1,500 anti-Castro allies came ashore at Playa Giron beach during the Bay of Pigs invasion on the south coast of Cuba, April 1961. REUTERS/Prensa Latina

  3. Cuban President Fidel Castro (3rd row, R) enters a public trial for captured members (seated) of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Havana April 1961. REUTERS/Stringer

  4. Cuban refugees hold up empty jugs as they beg for water while floating on the high seas in home-made rafts about 45 miles south of Key West, August 21, 1994. REUTERS/Blake Sell

  5. Five-year-old Cuban refugee Roberto Santorez walks past a row of barbed wire at the Camp Buckeley detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base August 22, 1994. REUTERS/Win McNamee

  6. Cuban refugees stand inside the tent city compound at Guantanamo Naval Base August 27, 1994. REUTERS/Stringer

  7. Cuban fishermen check their lines as a large ocean-going ship flying the U.S. flag ship looms in the background in Havana, Cuba January 2, 1998. REUTERS/Rafael Perez

  8. Fascinated Cuban children enjoy new sweets and toys vending machines installed in a shop in Old Havana November 18, 1998. Although almost all Cubans are paid in local peso currency, many have access to dollars through remittances from abroad, informal work, or jobs with foreign companies. REUTERS/Stringer

  9. Albel DeJesus Acosta (L), a former Cuban political prisoner, chats with supporter Alberto Espinosa (R) January 16, 1998 as he begins his first day of a hunger strike in Miami. Acosta, a Cuban exile who has a friend in a Cuban prison, is protesting Fidel Castro's human rights record. REUTERS/Stringer

  10. Elian Gonzalez, held by Donato Dalrymple, is taken by U.S. federal agents from his Miami relatives April 22, 2000. U.S. federal authorities stormed the Miami house where Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez was sleeping. Dalrymple is one of the two sport fishermen that rescued him at sea. REUTERS/Alan Diaz/Pool

  11. U.S. Army Military Police escort a detainee to his cell during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray in Naval Base Guantanamo Bay January 11, 2002. REUTERS/Stringer

  12. Cuban civilian workers make their way to the northeast gate of Guantanamo Naval Base at first light, January 15, 1998. Around twenty civilians from the communist country work on the base, the only American installation in the world operating on communist soil. REUTERS/Stringer

  13. A Cuban girl eats in front of a damaged home in the town Piocuac, in central Cuba, November 7, 2001 after Hurricane Michelle swept through the island. The Bush administration permitted the sale of food to Cuba for cash after Hurricane Michelle lashed the nation in 2001. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar

  14. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Fidel Castro listen to the Cuban national anthem at the baseball stadium "Latinoamericano" in Havana, May 14, 2002. Carter's visit, the most important by an American since President Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution, was an attempt to bridge four decades of Cold War feuding between Washington and Havana. REUTERS/Rafael Perez

  15. Cuban migrants trying to reach the U.S. coast in Florida ride in and on a 1951 Chevrolet truck, converted into a marine vessel with air-filled drums for flotation and a propeller driven off the driveshaft for propulsion, July 16, 2003. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard-Handout

  16. Players of the Twin State Peregrines of Vermont and New Hampshire drink water before a game with their Cuban counterparts at a convent on the outskirts of Havana August 10, 2008. Young baseball players from the United States, the first team of Little Leaguers known to visit Cuba since 2000, and Cuba squared off. REUTERS/Claudia Daut

  17. Cuban students hold photographs of victims from events such as the Bay of Pigs invasion and the bombing of a Cuban plane as a news ticker flashes on the U.S. diplomatic mission facade reading "Hugo Chavez affirms the...." in Havana February 6, 2006.

  18. Former Cuban exile Jose Temprana, 105, wears his shirt before attending a ceremony of naturalization to become a U.S. citizen in Miami June 29, 2007.

  19. An employee prepares a box which contains the coffin of a deceased man who will be transported to Cuba from Miami's International airport, July 30, 2008.

  20. An effigy of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is seen inside a coffin during a protest against the Colombian singer Juanes concert in Cuba, at Miami's little Havana in Florida September 20, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Bar

  21. An anti-Castro Cuban exile reacts during a protest against the "Peace Without Borders" concert in Cuba, at Miami's little Havana, Florida September 20, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

  22. Reina Luisa Tamayo carries a box containing the ashes of her son Orlando Zapata Tamayo as family members carry a Cuban flag outside the U.S. Interests Section (USINT) in Havana June 8, 2011.

  23. Marilina Barcesia, who is four-month's-old, rests in the arms of her mother at the William Soler Children's Heart Center as she waits for surgery in Havana October 7, 2013.

  24. A anti-Castro Cuban exile reacts after the announcement of restoring diplomatic ties between Cuba and United States, at an area knows as 'Little Havana' in downtown Miami, Florida December 17, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

  25. Alan Gross, recently released from prison in Cuba, thrusts his fist in the air as he is mentioned by President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

  26. Gerardo Hernandez, one of the so-called "Cuban Five" receives the Cuban hero medal from Cuba's President Raul Castro (front) during a ceremony in Havana February 24, 2015.

  27. Gerardo Hernandez , one of the so-called "Cuban Five", reacts with his wife Adriana Perez (L) during Cuban musician Silvio Rodriguez's concert in Havana December 20, 2014. T

  28. Kevin Lachaise, 8, watches a recorded TV show through the screen of a computer at the living room of his home in downtown Havana February 10, 2015.

  29. Michel Gonzalez, 39, rolls cigars at the H. Upmann cigar factory in Havana, February 26, 2015. Cuban cigar-maker Habanos S.A. envisions gaining 25 percent to 30 percent of the U.S. premium cigar market if the United States lifts its trade embargo on Cuba, potentially selling 70 million to 90 million cigars per year, the company said. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

  30. Georganne Nixon, wife of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, stands near a 1954 Chevrolet car at a hotel in Havana March 2, 2015. The most important U.S. agricultural delegation to visit Cuba in more than a decade began three days of meetings, hoping to find potential business partners and urge the U.S. Congress to lift the trade embargo against the Caribbean nation.REUTERS/Stringer

  31. Chairs are prepared before a news conference in Washington, after the fourth round of U.S.-Cuba talks to re-establish diplomatic relations and re-open embassies, May 22, 2015. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

  32. A creation by U.S. artist Duke Riley called "La esquina fria" for the 12th Havana Biennial, is seen at Havana's seafront boulevard "El Malecon" May 24, 2015.

  33. Private vendor Lionel Hernandez (C), 47, waves the U.S. and Cuban national flags moments before the match between New York Cosmos and Cuba's national team in Havana June 2, 2015.

  34. Lizmaria Perez, 7, (C), chats with friends before a rehearsal of the choral group Sol Fa which she is part of before the presentation of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus Young Men�s Ensemble, a U.S. children's choir, in Havana, June 15, 2015.

  35. Cuban girls dressed as nurses and a lizard wait for their turn to dance during a visit by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington in Havana July 13, 2015. The choir made its first appearance on July 12, 2015 in Cuba as part of a tour that will include a dozen concerts in the context of the restoration of relations between the island and the United States. REUTERS/Enrique de la Osa

  36. Retiree Lance Veit (C), 65, from California, enjoys a ride in a vintage car at the seafront Malecon during a cultural exchange trip in Havana, July 11, 2015. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

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