Republican lawmakers have asked for an investigation into why Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z were allowed to allegedly breach a trade embargo to visit Cuba for their wedding anniversary.
The musical power couple were mobbed by dozens of well-wishers while dining at the famed restaurant La Guarida and strolling through the streets of Havana for their fifth wedding anniversary last week.
Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida say the visit was in breach of a 53-year-old trade embargo that bans all US tourism in Cuba.
They have penned a letter to the US Treasury alleging the pair's visit will be used by the Castro regime for propaganda purposes.
"The restrictions on tourism travel are common-sense measures meant to prevent US dollars from supporting a murderous regime that opposes US security interests at every turn and which ruthlessly suppresses the most basic liberties of speech, assembly and belief," it says.
