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Deep inside Havana's Palacio De La Revolucion is the spare, book-lined office from which Cuba is ruled. It lies down a corridor lined with columns of rough native marble and ferns from the Sierra Maestra, recalling the famous mountain redoubt where the revolution was born almost 40 years ago. Few are allowed to penetrate to the heart of the last socialist bastion in the western hemisphere, one of a handful of communist regimes struggling to ride out the 20th century. Here is where Fidel Castro secretly pulls the strings guiding his country. And where he still pursues with...
HAVANA: Pope John Paul II finds himself in an unusual situation as he gives his first mass in Cuba today: TIME correspondent Tammerlin Drummond says many Cubans aren?t quite sure...
...urged them to come out and greet the pontiff. They were there out of a sense of duty to the revolution.? An unusual scenario indeed, particularly in light of the media-driven perception of the Pope as anti-communist crusader who would serve as a magnet for opposition forces. ?Cuba is not Poland,? says Drummond. ?The Church here was always associated with the rich, many of whom went into exile in Miami. It?s never been a Latin American-style ?church of the people...
Pope?s Cuban Recognition Problem John Paul II gives his first mass in Cuba, facing an unusual problem: Many Cubans know that the pontiff is important, they?re just not sure...
...People are treating the Pope as a head of state," she reports. "They're saying 'It's good that someone of his stature is coming to Cuba,' but a lot of these people aren't religious. Remember, the country has been atheist for more than 30 years...