Caribbean countries urged President-elect Barack Obama on Monday to end the American trade embargo on Cuba. Mr. Obama has pledged to ease restrictions on Cuban-Americans traveling to Cuba and sending money there, but has said he wants to maintain the embargo to press for changes in the Communist-run country. “The Caribbean community hopes that the transformational change that is under way in the United Status finally relegates that measure to history,” said Prime Minister W. Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda, chairman of the Caricom group of Caribbean nations, which was meeting in Santiago de Cuba.

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