{"id":54413,"date":"2015-09-15T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/09\/15\/benedict-xvi-visited-cuba-in-2012-called-for-more-liberties-and-criticized-the-embargo\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:56:00","slug":"benedict-xvi-visited-cuba-in-2012-called-for-more-liberties-and-criticized-the-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/09\/15\/benedict-xvi-visited-cuba-in-2012-called-for-more-liberties-and-criticized-the-embargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict XVI visited Cuba in 2012, called for more liberties and criticized the embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI visited Cuba for three days in March 2012, a year before his resignation. Cuban President Raul Castro received the Pope at the airport and accompanied him as he visited the cities of Santiago and Havana.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope gave five public speeches. His words were respectful but very direct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>'Justice, peace, liberty, reconciliation.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Fidel Castro personally greeted the Pope in Havana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>'It is good to see you.\u00e2?\u009d<br \/>\n'How are you?\u00e2?\u009d<br \/>\n'I am very well because there has been a wonderful welcome.\u00e2?\u009d<br \/>\n'I have tried to follow as much as possible through the TV.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Benedict XVI met privately with Raul Castro in the Revolution Palace and handed him a list of political prisoners. A day later, his last words to Cuba were a plea for 'Cuba to be a home for all Cubans.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>'May no one feel excluded from taking up this exciting task because of limitations of his or her basic freedoms, or excused by indolence or lack of material resources, a situation which is worsened when restrictive economic measures, imposed from outside the country, unfairly burden its people.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope had another petition for \u00a0Raul: to declare Good Friday a National Holiday. The government accepted and since they, locals have had an extra holiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Cuban people joke that this is another reason why they are happy that Pope Francis is visiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JMB\/AZ<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n- PR<br \/>\nUp:KLH\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 15, 2015. Fidel Castro visited him in the nunciature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":32917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/lsLFU86kHbU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bbxvicubaint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}