Professor compares visiting Cuba to Nazi Germany

Professor compares visiting Cuba to Nazi Germany

Treasury Department: Jay-Z, Beyonce received cultural license to visit Cuba
Published On: Apr 08 2013 05:39:18 PM EDT
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MIAMI -

A University of Miami professor compared Jay-Z and Beyonce celebrating
their wedding anniversary in Cuba to visiting Nazi Germany to enjoy
Adolf Hitler.

"I feel disgusted," said Dr. Jaime Suchlicki, the former director of the
University of Miami's Research Institute for Cuban Studies. "Very few
people went to Nazi Germany to enjoy Hitler."

"It's not a place to have a vacation," said U.S. Rep. Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen. "They have to know that they're going to be used by the
Cuban regime to try to portray a sense of normalcy on the island."

"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," Reps. Ros-Lehtinen and Mario
Diaz-Balart wrote in the letter to the Treasury Department's Office of
Foreign Assets Control.

The couple had a license to travel to Cuba for cultural purposes,
according to the Treasury Department.

"You can go to Cuba as an American if you're going with a religious
group, with a humanitarian group, or with a cultural group," said Suchlicki.

"Pay attention to what human rights abuses are occurring in the very
island where you're partying," added Ros-Lehtinen.

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