Are people free to practice religion in Cuba? Well, we all know what thecorporate press would say, but actually the answer’s a little bitcomplicated.

Listen to part of a speech given by Fidel Castro in September 1996 inHarlem on the topic of religion in Cuba.

Tape:

The very Reverend Pablo Oden Marichal, an Episcopal priest and nationalcoordinator for the Cuban Council of Churches.

Lois Kroehler, a Presbyterian missionary in Cardenas, Cuba.

Related links:

• Washington Office on Latin America
• Radio Habana Cuba
• The Republic of Cuba–National Web Site
• 1/8/98 Democracy Now!–“Evoving Revolutionary”
• 1/7/98 Democracy Now!–“Cuba’s Revolution and the Lives it Changed”
• 1/6/98 Democracy Now!–“Interviews from Cuba (Part II)”
• 1/5/98 Democracy Now!–“Interviews from Cuba (Part I)”
• 11/20/97 Pacifica Network News–“Bombs in Havana”
• 11/19/97 Pacifica Network News–“Pentagon Planned Crisis To Blame On Castro”
• 10/17/97 Pacifica Network News–“The Mythical Che Guevara”