
Jay-Z and BeyoncĂ© made a highly publicized trip to Cuba for their fifth wedding anniversary, and now two Republicans are demanding that the Obama administration investigate the couple, reports ThinkProgress.Â
Former House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and her colleague Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart sent a letter to the Treasury Departmentâs Office of Foreign Assets Control on Friday, calling for an investigation into whether any laws were broken during the celebritiesâ trip:
We write to express concern and to request information regarding the highly publicized trip by U.S. musicians BeyoncĂ© Knowles-Carter (BeyoncĂ©) and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) to Cuba. We would like to respectfully request, within all applicable rules and guidelines, information regarding the type of license that BeyoncĂ© and Jay-Z received, for what purpose, and who approved such travel âŠ
Cubaâs tourism industry is wholly state-controlled; therefore, U.S. dollars spent on Cuban tourism directly fund the machinery of oppression that brutally represses the Cuban people.
Despite the clear prohibition against tourism in Cuba, numerous press reports described the coupleâs trip as tourism, and the Castro regime touted it as such in its propaganda.
Beyonce and Jay-Z did recently travel to Cuba for their fifth anniversary, a move that has upset many in the Cuban-American community.
Read more at ThinkProgress.
