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Married musicians Beyonce, left, and rapper Jay-Z, during an April 4, 2013 
trip to Cuba, and President Obama.APYou generally don't want to get into 
a rap rivalry with Jay-Z.But the White House on Thursday challenged the 
mega-artist after he released a track suggesting he got "White House clearance" 
for his controversial trip to Cuba with wife Beyonce.Jay Carney, President 
Obama's press secretary, categorically denied the claim -- reiterating that 
the Treasury Department handles clearance."I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury," 
Carney joked, before clarifying: "The White House, from the president on 
down, had nothing to do with anybody's ... travel to Cuba. That 
is something that Treasury handles."Jay-Z released the track Thursday shortly 
after returning from Cuba, a trip that drew criticism from Cuban-American 
lawmakers in Congress who questioned how the couple got permission to travel 
to the communist-run island.The rapper boasted at length about the visit, 
suggesting Obama was involved."I done turned Havana into Atlanta," he rapped. 
"Boy from the hood, but got White House clearance."He continued: "Politicians 
never did s--- for me except lie to me, distort history, wanna 
give me jail time and a fine. Fine, let me commit a 
real crime. ... Obama said, 'Chill you gonna get me impeached.' You 
don't need this s--- anyway, chill with me on the beach.'"The track 
resulted in a bizarre scene at Thursday's White House briefing, as a 
reporter re
ch everywhere but Caracas, the capital. Worsening power 
outages, crumbling infrastructure and other unfulfilled promises witnessed 
this week in a trip through the country's industrial heartland could be 
an important factor in Sunday's election to replace socialist President 
Hugo Chavez, who died last month after a long battle with cancer.His 
political heir, Nicolas Maduro, is favored to win, largely on the strength 
of Chavez's generous anti-poverty programs, which Chavez emphasized over 
public works with one big exception: housing.But polls show that support 
may be eroding and the outages are a testament to the neglect 
many Venezuelans consider inexcusable in this major oil-producing state. 
Violent crime, double-digit inflation, official corruption and persistent 
food shortages are other factors.Some of the rolling, intermittent blackouts 
are still scheduled. But most are no longer announced. They generally last 
three to four hours a day on average, said Miguel Lara, who 
ran the power grid until Chavez forced him out in 2004 for 
being "a political risk."Jose Aguilar, a U.S.-based consultant with extensive 
and more recent experience in Venezuela's electrical industry, says it is 
suffering "a downward spiral of deterioration." Insufficient transmission 
lines are running so hot that 20,000 distribution transformers burned out 
last year, he said. "They run them cherry red."Electrical substations are 
in a precarious state, Aguilar and Lara s


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