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Pope Benedict XVI wears a sombrero, a traditional Mexican hat, while being driven through the crowd before officiating a mass in Silao March 25, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Osservatore Romano By Simon Gardner SANTIAGO DE CUBA | Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:47am EDT SANTIAGO DE CUBA (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrives in Cuba on Monday on a three-day visit that has fueled aspirations for deeper economic and political change on the communist-run island and which the Roman Catholic Church hopes will spark a faith revival. Visiting 14 years after Pope John Paul II's landmark trip to Cuba, and arriving after a stop in Mexico, Benedict will pay homage to the island's patron saint, the diminutive doll-like figurine the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, and say Masses in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba and in Havana. He comes to Cuba at a time when church-state relations have warmed after decades of hostility that followed the island's 1959 revolution. President Raul Castro has used the Church as an interlocutor on issues such as political prisoners and dissidents, seeking support for his reforms to Cuba's rickety Soviet-style economy that partly involve slashing a million government jobs. The Church is the largest and most socially influential institution outside of the government in Cuba. Castro will meet Benedict at the airport in Santiago de Cuba, which is Cuba's second biggest city, then hold official talks with him on Tuesday in Havana. It was not yet known if Benedict, 84, would meet former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who is 85 and Raul's older brother, or Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, 57, who arrived in the Cuban capital over the weekend for cancer treatment. Chavez has become more publicly religious since he was operated on for cancer last summer in Cuba. Unconfirmed reports out of Venezuela said the pope would see him in Havana. In Mexico, Benedict denounced drug violence and corruption, while in Cuba he was expected to build on improved relations with the state to get a bigger role for the Church by expanding its social programs and education courses. But he fired an unexpected salvo on Friday when he told reporters that communism on the Caribbean island had failed and a new economic model was needed. While even non-Catholic Cubans are eagerly awaiting his visit, not everyone agreed with his views on communism. "All Cubans would like the pope's visit to have repercussions that help end the embargo, but we don't need a new system," said Sergio Teyes, 40, sitting next to the frayed 1950 Chevrolet Deluxe classic car he uses to drive tourists around town, its bumpers and trim dented and blue paint flaking off. "The economy has been improving, growing, education and healthcare is paid for," he added. "Marxism will always be the idea, but with improvements. One thing we could do with are better salaries." The Communist Party ended its ban on religious believers in 1991, but Cubans generally view John Paul's visit as the pivotal moment that led to improved Church-state relations. NO MEETINGS WITH DISSIDENTS Expectations are more muted for Benedict's visit, which coincides with the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Virgin figurine, and was inspired by a stirring of faith the Church saw in hundreds of thousands of people who thronged to a procession of a replica around the island last year. Found floating in a bay in 1612 by fishermen, the icon was revered by Cuba's independence heroes and sits in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountains from which Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara staged the 1959 revolution. The Virgin is an important figure for both the Church and Santeria, the Afro-Cuban religion that is a legacy of Cuba's slavery era and knows her as Ochun, the goddess of love. The pontiff will lead a Mass in honor of the Virgin in Santiago de Cuba on Monday, and then visit the sanctuary where it is enshrined in the mountainside town of El Cobre, 12 miles outside the city, on Tuesday. But Church officials say his schedule has not allowed for meetings with dissidents, who say Castro's government flouts human rights and suppresses their voices. The dissident movement Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White, a group of Catholic women that campaigns for the release of political prisoners, said it had been told by Cuban authorities to keep clear of the pope's Santiago Mass. "They are going to present the pope with a facade, not with the true Cuba," said Ana Celia Rodriguez, a 42-year-old mother of three who is planning to try to attend Monday's Mass anyway. "I really don't expect much change from the pope's visit. He'll see a Cuba that doesn't exist. My message for the pope is that he ought to see how things really are." 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