CUBA, AFTER MARX, CHRIST AND ELLEGUA?

The Pope is eagerly awaited in Cuba in January 1998. Some Cubans hope he will bring in more religious freedom, others dream of political upheaval as in Poland.
Three decades of official atheism have not eroded the Cubans' longing for the supernatural. The communist State, weakened by the failure of its marxist economy, can no longer enforce its anti-religious ideology. The Catholic Church, which was mostly silent under communism, is not the only one to take advantage of the present religious liberalism; many Cubans mix christianity with "santeria" - pagan...