70 percent of Cubans are followers of Santeria?
Good job Fidel. You turned your population over to Satan.
I was in Havana in 1993, not long after the Russians and East Germans cleared out. The people were unbelievably poor and deprived of most of what we take for granted. Food was scarce, and a simple cheese sandwich on white bread was an unbelievable grommet meal for most. In the downtown Miramar section of Havana, whole families lived in one room and a row house might accommodate five or six families. I never saw a window with glass in it or fresh paint anywhere in that area. Each block was ruled over by a government watcher, aided by innumerable lesser snitches. The watchers were not hard to spot, as they held themselves out like medieval lords and seethed authority. But even they, as everyone, else made way in awe for the Santeria priestesses in their tall white turbans who moved down the street as if they were floating.
So far as I could tell, Santeria was nearly universal there to a greater or lesser degree. It was blended with orthodox Catholicism, with each Santeria saint having a corresponding identity as a Catholic saint. If I recall correctly, for example, the Santeria goddess Ochun, was the same as St. Barbara.