Beyonce and Jay-Z's holiday in Cuba under fire
US members of Congress question whether the pair had permission from Government to visit island
- Katy Perry and John Mayer
Musical power couple Mr and Mrs Carter, otherwise known as Beyonce and Jay-Z, have caused uproar by taking a holiday in Cuba.
The pair celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary last week by visiting the Caribbean island, where hundreds of locals greeted them and shook hands with them as they walked through Havana’s streets.
But it seems the couple might not have had the correct documents to visit the island.
The US has a 51-year embargo which bands US citizens visiting Cuba solely for tourism, but Americans can travel there if they obtain a cultural exchange licence.
Two Republican members of Congress have now requested information about the couple’s visit to determine if the government gave them permission to travel there, the BBC reports.
The two members of Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, wrote in a statement: “Cuba’s tourism industry is wholly state-controlled; therefore, US dollars spent on Cuban tourism directly fund the machinery of oppression that brutally represses the Cuban people.”
It's unclear whether the couple had the correct documents for the trip
Beyonce had music fans around the world waiting in tense anticipation this week with the promise of a new announcement.
One Thursday she unveiled a new Pepsi ad, which features part of her new single ‘Grown Woman’.
Below: Beyonce surveys her kingdom at Barack Obama's inauguration
