Treasury Dept: Beyoncé, Jay-Z Took ‘Educational’ Trip To Cuba

YahooNews ^ | April 09, 2013 | Olivier Knox

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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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The only Cuban people Beyonce and Jay-Z had contact with were officials and puppets of the Castro dictatorship.

As is always the case when Yanks get to "visit" Cuba.

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.

This, I believe, would require a measure of depth, of thought, grossly lacking in these two individuals. But yeah, that Hotair post is spot on.

[Iron Munro]

Heard on the radio (Rose & Quinn) this morning that the Treasury Dept. denies that Beyoncé & Jay-Z travelled on an educational license issued by them.

More liies spin and B.S. to cover up law breaking by Pals Of Obama