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Q: Sen. Marco Rubio says the Cuban government used celebrity couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s recent trip to the country for “propaganda purposes,” and the Florida Republican wants answers from the White House. 
  
 “According to recent news reports, Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s Cuba trip, which the regime seized on for propaganda purposes, was fully licensed by the Treasury Department,” Rubio said in a public statement on Monday. “If true, the Obama administration should explain exactly how trips like these comply with U.S. law and regulations governing travel to Cuba and it should disclose how many more of these trips they have licensed.” 
  
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 Reuters reported Monday that the Treasury Department licensed the trip. 
  
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 Rubio said that U.S. law bans American tourism to Cuba because it helps fund a “cruel, repressive and murderous regime.” 
  
 “U.S. law clearly bans tourism to Cuba by American citizens because it provides money to a cruel, repressive and murderous regime,” Rubio said in the statement. “Since their inception, the Obama administration’s ‘people to people’ cultural exchange programs have been abused by tourists who have no interest in the Cuban people’s freedom and either don’t realize or don’t care that they’re essentially funding the regime’s systematic trampling of people’s human rights.” 
  
 Rubio is not the first lawmaker to question the trip. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) sent a letter on Friday to the Treasury Department, wanting more information about the vacation, which coincided with the couple’s fifth wedding anniversary. 
  
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 “We write to express concern and to request information regarding the highly publicized trip by U.S. musicians Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (Beyoncé) and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) to Cuba,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter. 
  
 On Monday, Rubio tweeted that the couple should have met with imprisoned rapper Ángel Yunier Remón Arzuaga from the hip-hop duo Los Hijos Que Nadie Quiso (The Unwanted Children), who was imprisoned last month for rapping anti-government lyrics. ||||| Superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z generate buzz with virtually everything they do, and their fifth wedding anniversary celebration was no different. 
  
 Marking their anniversary in Cuba last week, they caused a stir when they toured Old Havana, posing for pictures with local schoolchildren and dining at the renowned restaurant La Guarida, where police had to step in to keep the crowds at bay, The Associated Press reported. 
  
 But the visit has also attracted a more critical audience, two Republican congressman from Florida. 
  
 Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, who represent heavily Cuban districts in South Florida, sent a letter to the federal office responsible for regulating Americans' travel to Cuba asking what kind of license - or special permission - the music power couple had allowing them to travel to the island. 
  
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 Unless the U.S. government gives Americans special permission, usually for journalistic, academic, humanitarian or other special reasons that exclude simple tourism, travel to Cuba is prohibited. 
  
 Violations of the government's decades-old embargo governing transactions with and travel to Cuba can result in 10 years in prison and $250,000 in individual fines, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. 
  
 In their letter to Adam J. Szubin, the director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control Department of Treasury - the office that issues licenses for permitted trips to Cuba - Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart wrote: "We write to express concern and to request information regarding the highly publicized trip by U.S. musicians Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (Beyoncé) 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 Beyoncé and Jay-Z received, for what purpose, and who approved such travel." 
  
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 The letter added: "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. … The restrictions on tourism travel are common-sense 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." 
  
 Rick Klein, political director for ABC News, said, "I think there is going to be a lot of questions for the administration as to how these two very high-profile, very well-connected individuals got to spend their anniversary in Havana." 
  
 A Treasury Department official told ABC News the department does not comment on specific cases. 
  
 Beyonce, 31, and Jay-Z, 43, have also not commented on their trip. ||||| U.S. singer Beyonce (L) and her husband rapper Jay-Z walk as they leave their hotel in Havana April 4, 2013. 
  
 MIAMI When the U.S. Treasury Department approved a cultural trip to Cuba last week, it had no idea that those traveling included American pop superstar Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z, according to people familiar with the four-day visit. 
  
 The trip was handled according to a standard licensing procedure for federally approved "people-to-people" cultural tours to the island, and the power couple received no special treatment, said Academic Arrangements Abroad, the New York-based nonprofit group that organized the trip. 
  
 The trip caused a stir because of the high profile of Beyonce and Jay-Z. A longstanding U.S. trade embargo against communist-led Cuba bars most Americans from traveling there without a license from the U.S. government, and specifically prohibits tourism. 
  
 Three Cuban American members of Congress, all Republicans from Florida and supporters of a firm stance on Cuba, asked the Treasury Department to look into the licensing of the trip, prompting officials to seek a full accounting of the itinerary and travel documents from the organizers, according to Academic Arrangements Abroad. 
  
 U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart said the trip was being used for Cuban government propaganda, while Senator Marco Rubio complained that the travel programs "have been abused by tourists." 
  
 If the trip was licensed, the Obama administration "should explain exactly how trips like these comply with U.S. law and regulations governing travel to Cuba," he said in a statement on Monday. 
  
 INDIVIDUALS NOT SCRUTINIZED 
  
 The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which administers the sanctions including the granting of licenses for travel to Cuba, does not comment on individual cases. 
  
 But licenses for people-to-people trips to the island are granted to travel organizations and not individuals, according to the Treasury Department regulations. 
  
 Approval is largely based on ensuring that the itinerary meets legal guidelines as cultural travel, and no advance notice of the individuals traveling to Cuba is required. 
  
 The regulations were updated last year after a battle in Congress led by Rubio, who successfully sought to include more stringent language to deter tourist circumvention of the law. 
  
 U.S. officials became aware of the names of the 12 people traveling in Beyonce and Jay-Z's group, including their mothers and two private security guards, only when the group showed up at Miami International Airport last Wednesday for the flight to Havana. 
  
 Academic Arrangements Abroad has organized numerous trips to Cuba for U.S. organizations, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brookings Institution think tank, as well as Princeton, Dartmouth and Rice universities. 
  
 All 12 participants of last week's trip carried letters from the licensed people-to-people sponsor of the trip, and the requisite affidavits declaring that they would stick to the approved itinerary, according to Marazul, the Miami-based charter company that operated their Cuba flight. 
  
 'LOOKS VERY TYPICAL' 
  
 Beyonce and Jay-Z, who celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Havana, are the highest-profile American celebrities to visit the island in recent years. 
  
 But their trip was no different from hundreds of similar tours that take place every year under Treasury Department licenses, say Cuba travel experts. 
  
 OFAC also administers general licenses for individual travel by Cuban Americans, and for educational and religious reasons. 
  
 So far Beyonce and Jay-Z have not spoken to the media about the trip and publicists for the couple did not return emails or phone calls seeking comment. 
  
 A person familiar with the itinerary said it involved no meetings with Cuban officials, or typical tourist activities such as beach trips. There were visits with Cuban artists, musicians, and dancers, as well as to nightclubs with live music and to a children's theater group. 
  
 "That all looks very typical of what we do," said Tom Popper, president of Insight Cuba, a division of Cross Cultural Solutions a nonprofit international volunteer organization on the outskirts of New York. 
  
 Insight Cuba organizes about 150 tours to Cuba a year, including music and arts-focused visits similar to Beyonce and Jay-Z's trip. Beach-going is never included, to comply with regulations. Other U.S. firms sponsor people-to-people trips. 
  
 The number of U.S. visitors to Cuba has shot up in the last two years, topping 500,000 in 2011, the Cuban Tourism Ministry says. Most were Cuban Americans visiting relatives, but about 90,000 were other Americans mostly traveling on licensed visits, Cuban officials say. 
  
 People-to-people cultural trips to Cuba were first promoted under President Bill Clinton in 2000 and were halted by President George W. Bush in 2003. They were revived by the Obama administration to encourage more contact between Americans and Cubans, separated by the 90-mile (140-kilometer) Florida Strait and more than half a century of ideological differences. 
  
 (Reporting By David Adams; Editing by Frances Kerry and Xavier Briand) |||||
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Now Marco Rubio is questioning Beyonce and Jay-Z's recent anniversary trip to Havana, a trip which an insider tells Reuters was licensed by the US Treasury department. Traveling to Cuba is normally forbidden for US citizens, with a potential punishment of 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines, ABC News notes. Though tourism is banned, the department individually licenses "people-to-people" cultural visits. That's what this trip was, the source says; it focused on culture rather than leisure. If Treasury did license the trip, it's got some explaining to do, says Rubio after other lawmakers voiced concern. "The Obama Administration should explain exactly how trips like these comply with US law ... and it should disclose how many more of these trips they have licensed," the Florida senator said. "US law clearly bans tourism to Cuba by American citizens because it provides money to a cruel, repressive, and murderous regime." He adds that "people-to-people" visits "have been abused by tourists who have no interest in the Cuban people’s freedom," Politico reports.