Thursday, April 11, 2013

OK. Funny joke. Now give the real reason.

“… 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 Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in a letter Tuesday that the pop power-duo's recent trip to the island on 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."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/treasury-dept-beyonc%C3%A9-jay-z-took-educational-trip-005112645--politics.html

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