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A group of 25 lawmakers on Tuesday sent a letter to the Treasury Department criticizing an order to evict a Cuban delegation from a U.S.-owned hotel in Mexico as a potential overreaching application of U.S. law that could have significant worldwide implications.

The bipartisan congressional letter was the latest fallout from a Feb. 3 decision by the Sheraton María Isabel hotel in Mexico City to evict 16 Cubans attending an energy conference with U.S. executives, following a warning by the Treasury Department that it might be violating U.S. laws.
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THE strict vigilance that the U.S. government is maintaining over enforcement of restrictions affecting Cuba has intensified with its withdrawal of a travel license from a travel agency in Florida that books trips to the island.

Molly Millenvise, spokeswoman for the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), said that the restrictions are aimed at strengthening OFAC’s regulations for enforcing sanctions on Cuba.
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