Jay-Z and Beyonce celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba last week. The celebrity couple appeared in numerous photographs on their tour to the capital city of Havana. Less than a week later, at least two members of Congress want answers.
Reuters reports that on Friday (April 5) United States Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, asked Adam Szubin, who serves as Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, for “information regarding the type of license that Beyonce and Jay-Z received, for what purpose, and who approved such travel.”
Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen are both Republican members of Congress, both representing districts in Florida with high Cuban-American populations.
“Despite the clear prohibition against tourism in Cuba, numerous press reports described the couple’s trip as tourism, and the Castro regime touted it as such in its propaganda,” read the letter. “We represent a community of many who have been deeply and personally harmed by the Castro Regime’s atrocities, including former political prisoners and the families of murdered innocents.”
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Last week, the State Department claimed no knowledge to the trip by the high-profile couple, who have been public supporters of President Barack Obama since his first term candidacy.
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