While welcoming Cuba's new ambassador to the Vatican on December 10, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI criticized the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, but he also called on the Cuban government to expand religious freedom on the island.
The Pope told Ambassador Eduardo Delgado Bermudez that he knows Cubans are suffering from the economic crisis, which "together with the devastating effects of natural disasters and the economic embargo particularly strikes poorer people and their families."
Pope Benedict said that he hoped the "signs of detente in relations with the nearby United States would signal new opportunities for a mutually beneficial rapprochement."
The late President John F. Kennedy imposed a U.S. economic embargo against Cuba in 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro seized control of the government. Cuba has remained a godless communist country since 1959, although U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he is considering ending the embargo against the island.
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