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The restraining chair and forced feeding apparatus on display in an empty room of the detainee hospital in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Associated Press
FILE - In this April 4, 2013 file photo, U.S. singer Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, are surrounded by bodyguards as they tour Old Havana, Cuba. U.S. Treasury officials on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 said the trip by Beyonce and Jay-Z to Cuba was licensed as an educational exchange. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
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Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, tour Old Havana, Cuba
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Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1952. He was awarded the Nobel in 1954. When LIFE magazine published Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, in its entirety, in its September 1, 1952, issue, five million copies of the magazine were sold ... in two days.
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Fidel Castro speaks at a rally June 21, 2004 in Havana, Cuba.
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Not originally published in LIFE. Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Not originally published in LIFE. Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hurricane Sandy is shown passing over Cuba and heading towards the western Bahamas. The storm is forecast to hit the East Coast next week
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Not originally published in LIFE. Ernest Hemingway at home in Cuba, August 1952.
CLAUDIA DAUT / REUTERS
Palm trees in Cuba are shaken by the winds of Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The NOAA's forecast predicts that eight to 10 of the storms next year will be classified as hurricanes.
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Not originally published in LIFE. Ernest Hemingway chats with fellow patrons at a cafe he enjoyed frequenting in Cuba, 1952.
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Not originally published in LIFE. An image from a contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
Brennan Linsley / AP
A detainee is escorted while being transported inside the detention center at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. In a 2 to 1 ruling, the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., has ruled that Guantanamo detainees do not have the constitutional right to challenge their detention.
Javier Galeano / AP
The wife of Pedro Gonzalez, second from right, reacts while firefighters try to rescue her husband from the rubble of their home in Havana, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. The house collapsed during rains caused by the pass of Hurricane Ike.
AP
Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro speaks to supporters at the Batista military base Columbia, now known as Ciudad Libertad in January 1959
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Fidel Castro.
Adalberto Roque / AFP / Getty
Fidel Castro
Steve Remich / Getty
Fidel Castro waves to the press from the window of his BMW.
Diego Giudice / archivolatino / Redux
Fidel Castro
Sven Creutzmann / Zeitenspiegel / Getty
Fidel Castro in 2006.
NOAL SUMMIT, POOL / AP
Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006.
Adalberto Roque / AFP / Getty
Fidel Castro (L), Raul Castro
ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP / GETTY
Cuban President Fidel Castro, left, and his brother Raul in 2003
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Majid Khan is seen in 1999 during his senior year in high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Khan, 27, is now jailed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Beyonce at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana next to her husband Jay Z, on April 5, 2013.
JOE SKIPPER / REUTERS
Yoani Sanchez, the best-known dissident blogger from Cuba, reacts to applause before speaking at the Freedom Tower in Miami, Fla., April 1, 2013.
Rickey Rogers / Reuters
A girl receives communion from Pope Benedict XVI during a Mass celebrated at Antonio Maceo Revolution Square in Santiago de Cuba on March 26, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI is in Cuba for a three-day visit in hopes of improving Church-state relations and pushing for a larger vatican role at a time of change on the communist island.
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Not originally published in LIFE. An image from a contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952. "I found some old pine stick," Eisenstaedt recalled of this scene, "a branch from a tree, and I said, 'Papa, take this, it looks very rugged, very rustic, and come up the hill.'"
Ramon Espinosa / Associated Press
Waves pound the boardwalk, the Malecon, during the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac in Havana Cuba, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. The hurricane center said the storm, which was swirling north of the central coast of Cuba in the pre-dawn hours, was expected to be near or over the Florida Keys sometime later Sunday or Sunday night.
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Pope Benedict XVI and Cuban leader Fidel Castro shake hands during a meeting on March 28, 2012 in Havana.
Ramon Espinosa / AP
Men stand behind the seawall as waves brought by Tropical Storm Isaac splash over them in Baracoa, Cuba, Aug. 25, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac pushed into Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti's southern peninsula.
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A U-2 spy photo shows Soviet missile activity on Cuba 50 years ago.
Ramon Espinosa / AP Photo
A driver maneuvers his classic American car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012.
Franklin Reyes / AP Photo
A woman washes her clothes in front of her damaged house after the passing of Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012.
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This photo downloaded from the Arabic language Internet site www.muslm.net and purporting to show a man identified by the Internet site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sep. 11 attacks, is seen in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The picture was allegedly taken in July 2009 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and released only to the detainee's family under a new policy allowing the ICRC to photograph Guantanamo inmates, ICRC spokesman Bernard Barrett said Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
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An aide hands Col. Fulgencio Batista, future president and dictator of Cuba, a tennis ball in 1938 Cuba.
DOD photo / Cheryl Pellerin
Sailors pile sandbags against the walls of Naval Security Forces headquarters at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Aug. 22, readying for Isaac's visit.
Alan Diaz / AP
Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, talks to reporters about her brother in Miami on Aug. 3, 2006
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A boy uses a cell phone next to a poster of former Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana
HAVANA WONDERFUL TIME: The Hotel Saratoga's gleaming walkways
NIURKA BARROSO/AFP
Jimmy Carter listens to Fidel Castro during a presentation in Havana
JOSE GOITIA/AP
A Venezuelan girl wishes Fidel Castro a happy 75th birthday
Luis Acosta / AFP / Getty
The new first vice-president of Cuba, Jose Ramon Machado, listens during the Cuban National Assembly in Havana, February 24, 2008.
Franklin Reyes / AP
Workers prepare sandwiches at a snack bar in Havana on Sept. 14, 2010
Matt Dunham / AP
Cuba's Angel Valodia Matos, left, kicks match referee Sweden's Chakir Chelbat in the face during a bronze medal match against Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov in the men's taekwondo +80 kilogram class at the Beijing 2008 Olympics
CRISTOBAL HERRERA/AP
Cuban President Fidel Castro waves a Cuban flag at a rally in Havana
Adalberto Roque / AFP / Getty
An oil pump in Havana
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A billboard in Havana reads "Coming Soon to North American Courts, The Assassin, with Posada Carriles and George W. Bush "
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LITTLE HAVANA, BURNING: Some of the more than 1,000 protesters set
fire to tires; others threw rocks
Frankly Reyes / AP
Fidel Castro waves during a special session of parliament, his first official government appearance in front of lawmakers in four years in Havana, Cuba.
Desmond Boylan / Reuters
Cuban flags fly beside the U.S. Interests Section office in Havana
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Raul Castro, Cuba's acting President, delivers a speech in honor of the 54th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks.
MARK WILSON / GETTY
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro meets with Wu Guanzheng, member of the Standing Committee of China's Communist Party, in Havana, April 20, 2007.
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Big waves break in Havana as Hurricane Wilma passes north of Cuba
JOSE GOITA/AP
Thousands of pro-Cuba foreigners and Americans protest the U.S. trade embargo
JOHN RILEY / EPA
A guard tower at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Enrique De La Osa / REUTERS
A Cuban flag is seen on a wall as a man rides his bicycle in Havana December 31, 2012.
John Moore / Getty Images
A U.S. military guard moves an "enemy combatant" within the detention center on September 16, 2010 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images
A shadow of a soldier falls next to a sign at the Camp Five detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Jan. 19, 2012.
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A contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
A contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
A contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
An image from a contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
Desmond Boylan / Reuters
A Chinese-built drilling rig, known as Scarabeo 9, is seen off the coast of Havana, January 21, 2012.
Desmond Boylan / Reuters
People walk along a street housing privately-licenced stalls, set up at the entrances of homes in Havana December 8, 2011.
Anne Bayin
A Bayin shot of a Suu Kyi mask in Cuba
Franklin Reyes / AP
Workers repair shoes in 'La Habanera' state owned workshop in Havana, Cuba.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appears in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Photograph by Javier Galeano
Hidden no more Havana's Catholic faithful celebrate the parade of La Virgen de la Caridad (Our Lady of Charity), Cuba's patron saint
Adalberto Roque / AFP / Getty
Cuban workers harvest potatoes in San Antonio de
las Vegas, Havana province, Cuba
Alejandro Ernesto / EPA
Hundreds of Cubans wait in front of the Spanish General Consulate in Havana, Cuba, on Dec. 29, 2008, for the documents needed to apply for Spanish citizenship
Brennan Linsley / AP
Military guards move a detainee at the detention center at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
Brennan Linsley / AFP / Getty
The US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa
The schooner "Amistad" flies the U.S. flag and Cuban flag as it
approaches Havana harbor March 25, 2010
Mark Wilson / Getty
A courtroom at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Javier Galeano / AP
The European Union agreed to lift diplomatic sanctions against Cuba
Eric Thayer / The New York Times
Rudy Giuliani, 0 for 4 so far, campaigns in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood
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FAMILY CIRCLE: Juan Miguel, in Cuba with family, told an American
legislator, "What do I have to do to prove that I love my child?"
Adalberto Roque / AFP / Getty
A Cuban-American man, right, is greeted upon arriving at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP
U.S. forces escort one of their detainees in Cuba
BRENNAN LINSLEY / AP
U.S. military officials transport a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in April 2006
Reuters / Corbis
Detainees inside the Camp 6 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba
CRISTOBAL HERRERA/AP
Castro samples a soy shake at an American food producers exhibition in Havana
Estudios Revolucion, Cubadebate / AP
Fidel Castro, left, stands with U.S. journalist of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, second from right, and Cuban Jewish Community President Adela Dworin, third from right, at the National Aquarium in Havana, Cuba on August 30, 2010
AFP / Getty
Australian David Hicks, a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. base in Cuba.
SAVA RADOVANOVIC/AP
Six Algerian suspects were taken from Bosnia to Camp X-Ray in Cuba
Brennan Linsley / AP
A detainee escorted by U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba.
Joe Raedle / Getty
In Miami, travel agents Norma Inclan and Marizela Somosa help Omar Garcia and Giselle Bordin purchase tickets to Cuba
BRENNAN LINSLEY / AP
A guard at Camp Delta 4, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, in June.
CRISTOBAL HERRERA/AP
Elian Gonzalez watches the festivities at the opening of a new museum in Cuba
REUTERS
Detainees sit in a holding area at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during processing into the facility in January 2002
Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty
The minimum security section of Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 24, 2007.
Courtroom Sketch by Janet Hamlin / Pool / Bloomberg / Landov
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, left, is questioned at Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.
JOSE GOITIA/AP
Lush life: Segundo smokes a cigar he rolled himself at the "Por Larranaga" cigar factory in Havana
Franklin Reyes / AP
Chairs are arranged for the parade to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs failed invasion at Revolution Square or Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana, Cuba, Friday April 15, 2011.
Paul Richards / AFP / Getty
A Joint Task Force guard, left, talks with a detainee at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba
Chip Somodevilla / Getty
Ankle cuffs are used to restrain prisoners at the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Brennan Linsley / AP
A guard stands at a gate at the Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba
Brennan Linsley / AP
A detainee leads a group in Islamic prayer in an outdoor common area at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.
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