Pope Benedict criticised the 50-year-old US trade embargo on Cuba as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the island on Wednesday, urging reconciliation and greater freedoms.<br /><br />The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics also met with Cuba's revolutionary icon and former president, Fidel Castro.<br /><br />"May no one feel excluded ... from taking up this exciting search for his or her basic freedoms, or excused from this 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," the pontiff said.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Havana.
