Posted on 04/09/2013 6:49:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
Treasury Dept: Beyoncé, Jay-Z Took ‘Educational’ Trip To Cuba By Olivier Knox
Singer Beyonce, center holding camera, walks with her husband, rapper Jay-Z, right of her, as they tour Old Havana, …
Sure enough, Beyoncé and Jay-Z may have 99 problems but the State Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Ain't One. OFAC, which enforces sanctions against Cuba, assured Republican Representatives Maria Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in a letter Tuesday that the pop power-duo's recent trip to the island on the occasion of their fifth anniversary had the governmental green light. The Florida lawmakers had written to the Treasury Department demanding to know whether the trip fell afoul of Cold War-era restrictions on Americans' travel to Cuba.
"It is our understanding that the travelers in question traveled to Cuba pursuant to an educational exchange trip organized by a group authorized by OFAC to sponsor and organize programs to promote people-to-people contact in Cuba," Alastair Fitzpayne, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Legislative Affairs, wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Yahoo News.
Fitzpayne, however, also seemed to put a little distance between OFAC and the globe-trotting couple, who gave vast sums to President Barack Obama's reelection campaign. He noted that "organizations holding people-to-people licenses must certify in writing to OFAC that any travel that they conduct will consist of a full-time schedule of educational activities that will result in meaningful interaction between the travelers and individuals in Cuba."
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Well, did they get an education on how socialism, big government and the nanny state destroys a country?
I kind of figured these two turds would need a trip to the zoo for them to understand communism. Of course, I don’t think mingling with the chimps in the monkey house helped them very much. They still don’t get it.
“”had written to the Treasury Department””
Why the Treasury Department, I wonder!!!
I think Lil Kim is p*ssed that Castro got Jay-Z and Beyonce and all he got was Rodman and the Google guy.
Boning up on their understanding of Marxist-Leninist theories of dialectic materialism no doubt.
I doubt they learned anything.
LOL! Good one.
Jay-Z’s outfit just started repping sports guys.
Just signed Robinson Cano from the Yankees.
Probably down there looking for talent.
THE ugly Americans...
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The only Cuban people Beyonce and Jay-Z had contact with were officials and puppets of the Castro dictatorship. They dined at the famous La Guarida restaurant, a supposedly “private” establishment that is in reality owned by Castro regime officials. They attended a performance of the children’s show La Colmenita, a government-run Castro propaganda extravaganza that is borderline child abuse for its blatant exploitation of children. They visited an art college where the only artists allowed to attend must be revolutionary artists and any attempts at free artistic expression are punished by at best, expulsion, and at worst, imprisonment. Beyonce and Jay-Z toured the streets of Old Havana escorted by agents of the regime’s East German Stasi-trained State Security, who pretended to control the crowds the government most likely bussed in for a photo opportunity as they have done so often in the past. A video showed Beyonce dancing salsa to a Celia Cruz song in a trendy apartheid establishment prohibited to typical Cubans, utterly oblivious to the fact that Celia Cruz, a Grammy winning fellow artist, had years ago been denied permission to enter Cuba to bury her deceased mother. And most telling and incriminating of all, neither of these two prominent black Americans were allowed by the regime to visit with or utter a single public word of support for Cuba’s imprisoned and repressed black dissidents.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/09/showdown-dws-vs-beyonce-on-cuba-trip/
What education? Oh, that’s right they don’t know what propaganda is!
More ignorant celebrities. We sure have a lot of them.
From Gaddafi to Castro, Beyonce sure gets around.
We need to inundate the Treasury Dept with requests for educational trips to Cuba. Lol. Just see how many they approve.
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