By Bob Van Leer

  (CANCUN, MEXICO, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2000) - We arrived in Can Cun this afternoon after the short flight from Havana and will be spending overnight before departing tomorrow for home.

  How to sum up the reactions of this short trip? Cuba is doing considerably better today than it was when I last visited in 1992. That was shortly after the Soviet Union and the whole Socialist block in Eastern Europe collapsed and the Soviet subsidy to Cuba was cut off.