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On April 9th, 2013, the Treasury Department responded to Cuban-American Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s April 5th letter questioning Jay-Z and Beyonce’s recent anniversary trip to Cuba with this letter.

The deeply anti-Castro Cuban-American congresspeople had complained in their letter that “The restrictions on tourism travel are commonsense measures meant to prevent U.S. dollars from supporting a murderous regime that opposes U.S. security interests at every turn and which ruthlessly suppresses the most basic liberties of speech, assembly and belief.”

But the Treasury Department makes clear in this letter that Jay and Bey were in Cuba perfectly legally, as part of an educational exchange trip

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Office of Foreign Assets Control is an office within the Treasury Department that administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign states, organizations, and individuals.

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Jay and Bey traveled to Cuba on April 4th for their 5-year wedding anniversary

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A Cuban-American U.S. Representative from Florida, Mario Diaz-Balart, is deeply anti-Castro.

The Cuban electorate in Florida can make a major difference in American politics, wielding a lot of power in this swing state. One reason is because of how the US acts against its own interest maintaining economical, cultural and diplomatic boycott of Cuba.

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Cuban-American U.S. Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wrote a letter to the Treasury Department in which they expressed concern about Jay-Z and Beyonce’s trip to Cuba. In the letter, both said they represent a community that has been “deeply and personally harmed by the Castro regime’s atrocities.”

“The restrictions on tourism travel are commonsense measures meant to prevent U.S. dollars from supporting a murderous regime that opposes U.S. security interests at every turn and which ruthlessly suppresses the most basic liberties of speech, assembly and belief,” they complained

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Sam Goldwyn was a Hollywood producer during the Golden Age of Hollywood, who was famously known for his Yogi Berra-esque “Goldwynisms”

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Bans the sale of magazines containing more than ten rounds – a so-called “high-capacity magazine”

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Some concrete proposals for improving American policy toward women – equal pay, family and medical paid leave benefits, and encouraging women to enter the math and science fields

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A call for women’s rights in America as well as around the world – equal pay, access to leadership positions like CEO and of course… President. This was an interesting inclusion because as Secretary of State Clinton was speaking fairly exclusively about women’s rights abroad

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