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Open Image ModalOxen pair pulling plow through tobacco field, Vinales Valley, Western Cuba. (credit:Chlaus Lotscher via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA woman lookss at compact discs on sale at a private business in Havana, on September 25, 2014. Cuba has begun gradually opening its economy since former President Fidel Castro, the 88-year-old father of the island\'s communist revolution, ceded power to his younger brother Raul in 2006. AFP PHOTO/Yamil LAGE (Photo credit should read YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:YAMIL LAGE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPeople are seen outside of the arrivals building at the Jose Marti international airport in Havana on August 23, 2014. The Cuban government decreed new restrictions to reduce the amount of foreign products that can be brought into the country by travellers. AFP PHOTO/YAMIL LAGE (Photo credit should read YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:YAMIL LAGE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalTRINIDAD, SANCTI SPIRITUS, CUBA - 2014/07/22: Senior Cuban citizen with a horse drawn carriage in Trinidad, he charges for pictures with him or in the carriage. \n\nPrivate small business are now allowed after the Raul Castro economic changes toward a more flexible economy. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit:Roberto Machado Noa via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalFarmer - Cuba. (credit:Michael Moxter via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCohiba cigar factory. Cuba (credit:Angelo Cavalli via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalRuben Font carries a scaffold piece to his home in Havana, Cuba, Monday May 23, 2011. More than 1,000 independent shops selling building materials have opened up around Cuba, official media said Monday, as the government looks to the private sector to fight corruption and the black market, eliminate expensive subsidies and help ease a severe housing crisis. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Open Image ModalCUBA - 2014/06/28: Senior Cuban citizen using a bicycle in Cuba where transportation is an issue and expensive for most. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit:Roberto Machado Noa via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalSANTA CLARA, VILLA CLARA, CUBA - 2014/06/25: Old American parked in a street. The scarcity in the supply of cars have made Cubans to repair and maintain cars from last century. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit:Roberto Machado Noa via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAn unidentified man reads a copy of the document explaining the guidelines and economic changes that were approved at last month\'s Communist Party Congress, in Havana, Cuba, Monday May 9, 2011. Billed by President Raul Castro as a way to fix Cuba\'s economy, some of the changes include reforms that would make it easier for people to buy and sell private property, run small businesses and get credit to finance those operations. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Open Image ModalIn this photo taken Jan. 18, 2011, a slaughtered pig hangs on the wall before being cooked as chef Jose Salgado works at the Partenon, a private restaurant owned by Javier Acosta, in Havana. After Cuban authorities announced in September 2010 that they were opening the island\'s closed Marxist economy to a limited amount of private enterprise, tens of thousands like Acosta are chasing their entrepreneurial ambitions in Cuba\'s year of economic change, hopeful that a sweeping overhaul of the economy announced last year by President Raul Castro is for real. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Open Image ModalPeople use a horse drawn carriage as public transport as a public bus is seen behind in Bayamo, Cuba, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. The Cuban government laid out details of the taxes that Cubans will face as they go to work for themselves for the first time after announcing last month that it will lay off half a million state workers, nearly 10 percent of the island\'s work force. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Open Image ModalA fruits and vegetables retailer arrives at a wholesale market in Havana, on August 6, 2013. After 50 years and due to President Raul Castro\'s economic reforms, the wholesale trade has reborn in Cuba. AFP PHOTO/ADALBERTO ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ADALBERTO ROQUE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA car on sale is seen in a street of Havana, on November 3, 2011. The Cuban government has approved a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time in 50 years, the official newspaper Granma said on 3 November, 2011. The measure is part of a series of economic reforms aimed at reviving the economy of the communist-ruled island and easing a severe housing shortage. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:STR via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalHAVANA - NOVEMBER 10: After 52 years of the Communist Revolution, Cuba\'s leaders attempt to redefine their economic model. Small changes, such as allowing some people to own businesses, are starting to be implemented, as Raul Castro guides the country towards a 21st Century model of the famed revolution. (Photo by The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images) (credit:Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCubans look for a means of transport, on June 9, 2009, in Havana. The international economic crisis is forcing the Cuban government to reduce the supply of food, public transport and electricity in all the country, according to government officials. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:STR via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalGIBARA, CUBA - APRIL 15: Teenagers stand around during the low-budget movie festival \'Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre\' April 15, 2008 in Gibara, Cuba. The week long festival features films made in underdeveloped countries with a restricted economy. (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Mambo photo/Getty Images) (credit:Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photo via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalEmployees at Cuban Cohiba cigar manufacturer verify the size of cigars 01 March, 2006 in Havana. More than 1.000 guests from 60 countries, between distributors, specialists and lovers of the Cuban premium cigars attend the VIII International Cigar Festival, dedicated this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its leading brand Cohiba. Cuba exports 150 million premium cigars a year, which makes 40 percent of the world market --80 percent if the US, the biggest consumer of these cigars is not considered, since Cuba remains excluded from the US market because of the economical embargo active since 1962. AFP PHOTO/Adalberto ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ADALBERTO ROQUE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalAna Maria Sanchez, an employee to Cohiba cigar factory, smokes a cigar in front of a picture of Cuban President Fidel Castro 01 March, 2006 in Havana. More than 1.000 guests from 60 countries, between distributors, specialists and lovers of the Cuban premium cigars attend the VIII International Cigar Festival, dedicated this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its leading brand Cohiba. Cuba exports 150 million premium cigars a year, which makes 40 percent of the world market --80 percent if the US, the biggest consumer of these cigars is not considered, since Cuba remains excluded from the US market because of the economical embargo active since 1962. AFP PHOTO/Adalberto ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ADALBERTO ROQUE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalWorkers roll cigars at Cuban cigar manufacturer Cohiba 01 March, 2006 in Havana.. More than 1.000 guests from 60 countries, between distributors, specialists and lovers of the Cuban premium cigars attend the VIII International Cigar Festival, dedicated this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its leading brand Cohiba. Cuba exports 150 million premium cigars a year, which makes 40 percent of the world market --80 percent if the US, the biggest consumer of these cigars is not considered, since Cuba remains excluded from the US market because of the economical embargo active since 1962. AFP PHOTO/Adalberto ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ADALBERTO ROQUE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalWorker Teresita Diaz rolls a cigar at Cuban cigar manufacturer Cohiba\'s factory 01 March 2006, in Havana. More than 1.000 guests from 60 countries, between distributors, specialists and lovers of the Cuban premium cigars attend the VIII International Cigar Festival, dedicated this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its leading brand Cohiba. Cuba exports 150 million premium cigars a year, which makes 40 percent of the world market --80 percent if the US, the biggest consumer of these cigars is not considered, since Cuba remains excluded from the US market because of the economical embargo active since 1962. AFP PHOTO/Adalberto ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ADALBERTO ROQUE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCUBA - JANUARY 14: Cigar production at the company Partagas in the Cuban capital Havana. (Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images) (credit:Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCUBA - JANUARY 14: Cigar production at the company Partagas in the Cuban capital Havana. (Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images) (credit:Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCUBA - JANUARY 14: Cigar production at the company Partagas in the Cuban capital Havana. (Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images) (credit:Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalA Cuban farmer gets a few liters of milk from a underfed cow 22 December to feed his family in the town of Cabezas in the Pinar del Rio province. Because of the Cuban economic crisis, milk is distributed only to those under six years old only, excluding people with illnesses. (COLOR KEY: Grass is green.) (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ADALBERTO ROQUE via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalNBC cameraman Tom Priestly at the home of tobacco workers in Pinar del Rio during a news documentary exploring the events and achievements marking the first year of Fidel Castro\'s regime in Cuba 1960. -- (Photo by: NBC/NBC NewsWire)
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Open Image ModalA view of a sugar mill in Preston, Cuba 1950.\n (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCar Mechanic in Candelaria, Cuba 1994. (Photo by Independent Picture Service/UIG via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCUBA - 2003/01/01: Cuba, Near Pinar Del Rio, Tobacco Drying In Barn. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCUBA - 2003/01/01: Cuba, Las Terrazas, Biosphere Reserve, Buena Vista Coffee Plantation, Mill. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCUBA - 2003/01/01: Cuba, Havana, Street Scene, Paseo De Marti, Colonial House, Old Car, Men. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalHAVANA, CUBA - FEBRUARY 27: An old American car breaks down at the wall of Malecon February 27, 2003 in Havana, Cuba. In Cuba it is difficult to find spare parts to fix cars and machines due to the economic crisis across the island. Supporters to end the U.S. travel ban to Cuba in the U.S. Congress have said they think they can pass legislation within 2003. Supporters also say an easing of restrictions could generate over a billion dollars in revenue for U.S. businesses within five years. (Photo by Jorge Rey/Getty Images)