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U.S. lawyer Scott Gilbert, speaks to reporters about imprisoned U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Gross was imprisoned in December 2009 after he was caught setting up hard-to-detect Internet networks under a U.S. government contract. Cuba considers such programs to be an affront to its sovereignty and sentenced him to 15 years. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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Conrado Marrero, 102, the world's oldest living former major league baseball player, is surrounded by family and friends as he blows out the candle on his birthday cake at his home in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 25, 2013. In addition to his longevity, the former Washington Senator has much to celebrate this year. After a long wait, he finally received a $20,000 payout from Major League baseball granted to old-timers who played between 1947 and 1979. The money had been held up since 2011 due to issues surrounding the 51-year-old U.S. embargo on Cuba, which prohibits most bank transfers to the Communist-run island. But the payout finally arrived in two parts, one at the end of last year, and the second a few months ago, according to Marrero's family. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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**FILE** In this April 23, 2013 photo, Cuba's former pitcher Conrado Marrero, the world's oldest living former major league baseball player, holds up a baseball with his signature at his home, two days before is 102nd birthday, as he holds an unlit cigar in his mouth in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2004 file photo, Colombia's writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, right, speaks with fans at the inauguration of the 26th Havana Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. Cuba is dedicating the 2014 Havana Film Festival to the late Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was a longtime friend of former leader Fidel Castro and also a major backer of Cuba’s marquee international cinema bash. Havana's film festival takes place each December. Garcia Marquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2014 file photo, Raul Moas, center rear, executive director of the nonprofit organization Roots of Hope, addresses a group during a "Hackathon for Cuba" event run by Roots of Hope in Miami. A group of technology experts gathered to come up with ways to use their hacking ability to improve Internet access and information in Cuba. Cuba routinely blocks Internet pages that it finds objectionable. Leaders with the largest nonprofit organization for young Cuban-Americans quietly provided strategic support for the federal government’s secret "Cuban Twitter" program, connecting contractors with potential investors and even serving as paid consultants, The Associated Press has learned. For a period of about three months, Moas was significantly involved in the now-defunct ZunZuneo program, including reviewing some of the project’s test text messages to those on the island and approaching potential investors, according to the documents. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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In this April 12, 2014 photo, youngsters play baseball next to rundown buildings in Havana, Cuba. The country lacks around 500,000 units of housing according to the most recent government numbers from 2010. The problem grows each year as more buildings fall further into disrepair, punished year-round by the tropical sun, sea and wind.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this April 12, 2014 photo, children play soccer near a colonial building in Havana, Cuba. When President Raul Castro legalized a real estate market for the first time in five decades, it was expected to stimulate both new construction and maintenance of existing homes. But 2 ½ years later, there's only been a minimal impact on easing one of Cuba's biggest challenges: a chronic lack of suitable housing. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this April 10, 2014 photo, Lazaro Marquez, holds his daughter at his home in Havana, Cuba. Marquez and his family live in a substandard apartment whose ceiling leaks wastewater every time the family upstairs flushes the toilet. To leave the home, his daughter, who is paralyzed and unable to talk, must be carried in her wheelchair down precarious stairs on the verge of caving in. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this March 7, 2014 photo, Anaidis Ramirez lies on a bed with his belongings as he waits to be informed of where he will be relocated after the building where he lived was vacated due to the danger of collapse after the structure failed. Despite reforms in recent years to address the island’s housing problem, such building collapses remain common in Cuba, where decades of neglect and a dearth of new apartments has left untold thousands of islanders living in crowded structures at risk of suddenly falling down. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this April 12, 2014 photo, a man walks past a building that collapsed due to the heavy rain next to an image of revolutionary leader Che Guevara in Havana, Cuba. Despite reforms in recent years to address the island’s housing problem, such building collapses remain common in Cuba, where decades of neglect and a dearth of new apartments has left untold thousands of islanders living in crowded structures at risk of suddenly falling down. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this March 7, 2014 photo, a woman sitting on a chair waits in a street of Havana, Cuba, to be informed of where she will be relocated after the building where she lived was vacated due to the danger of collapse after the structure failed. Despite reforms in recent years to address the island’s housing problem, such building collapses remain common in Cuba, where decades of neglect and a dearth of new apartments has left untold thousands of islanders living in crowded structures at risk of suddenly falling down. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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CORRECTS DATE- In this April 12, 2014 photo, buildings line the waterfront esplanade known as the Malecon as seen from the Morro Castle in Havana, Cuba. When President Raul Castro legalized a real estate market for the first time in five decades, it was expected to stimulate both new construction and maintenance of existing homes. But 2 ½ years later, there's only been a minimal impact on easing one of Cuba's biggest challenges: a chronic lack of suitable housing. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
