Royal Decree/Executive Order

Partially lifting the travel ban to Cuba, the Obama administration declared that Americans could visit the island freely for “individual people-to-people educational travel.”

Huh. Which he’d let us have that much freedom to visit a doctor.

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Typo. It should read “…re-education travel”.

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Trickle-down Marxonomics.
Apparently the so-called beautiful people [sic] — at least, the Barack-Is-Beautiful people — have been able to travel there for years:

Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Cuba Trip Under Fire
Today.com | 4/9/13

Despite a long-standing ban on tourist trips to Cuba, Jay-Z and Beyonce were recently spotted on the island, sparking outrage for many Cuban-Americans and prompting a letter from two Florida Republican Congressmen to the Obama administration.

Treasury Dept: Beyoncé, Jay-Z Took ‘Educational’ Trip To Cuba
YahooNews ^ | April 09, 2013 | Olivier Knox

. . . the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) . . . which enforces sanctions against Cuba, assured Republican Representatives Maria Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in a letter Tuesday that the pop power-duo’s recent trip to the island on the occasion of their fifth anniversary had the governmental green light.

U.S. Treasury Clears Jay-Z and Beyoncé Trip to Cuba
Wall Street Journal | 8/21/14 | JOEL SCHECTMAN

A U.S. Treasury Department investigation has found Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s 2013 Cuba trip did not violate sanctions law. Superstar Beyoncé and her husband, the rapper Jay-Z, had obtained permission to visit the blacklisted country from the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control, under a license that allows cultural exchanges …

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And, it should by now go without saying, the administration lied through their a** (Carney) about it:
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Carney On Jay-Z And Beyonce’s Cuba Trip: “The White House Has Nothing To Do With It”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ | April 11, 2013 | Donovan Slack

DONOVAN SLACK, POLITICO: I just want to return to Beyonce and Jay-Z. Jay-Z released a rap today, I know the other day you said that Treasury was the one that cleared their trip, he suggested that he got White House permission – that he personally spoke with the president. I’ll just quote: “I turned Havana into Atlanta. Boy from the hood, I got White House Clearance. Obama said chill you gonna get me impeached. You don’t need this expletive anyway, chill with me on the beach.”

JAY CARNEY: I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury, because Treasury offers and gives licenses for travel, as you know, and the White House has nothing to do with it.

SLACK: So are you saying that he did not, the president, did not have a conversation with Jay-Z?

JAY CARNEY: I am absolutely saying that the White House, from the president on down, had nothing to do with anybody’s personal — anybody’s travel to Cuba. That is something that Treasury handles.