- our good friend vito echevarria, the journalist with the "cuba standard" online publication, antonio nadal, latino studies professor emeritus at brooklyn college cuny, samuel farber, professor emeritus, political science, and a book author, as well. welcome to all of you. oh, plus, and good to have you back, my friend. >> it's great. >> and i understand you're going to the island soon, right? >> oh, yeah. [ laughs ] >> business or pleasure? >> little of both. >> little of both. all right. well, keep us posted. there. >> oh, yeah, definitely. >> following up on the pope's trip, president ra`l castro has granted in recent months more, shall we say, religious freedom to the people on the island. what do you think the pope's visit will do to continue that? >> well, basically, the pope's mere presence on the island is basically to assure the changes are going on at various levels, everything from religion to the relations between cuba and the united states. >> mm-hmm. antonio, same question. i mean, do you think those religious freedoms and what he's allowed people to do -- how to exercise that