Trump’s company violated US embargo to do business in Cuba’s Castro

Donald Trump did business with Cuba, violating the US embargo during Fidel Castro's presidency, Newsweek reported in a story, titled "The Castro Connection". 

Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts paid at least $68,000 to a consulting firm, Seven Arrow, in late 1998 which went to Cuba and investigated possible business opportunities for Trump's company, according to the Newsweek report.

 “Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after-the-fact to a charitable effort", according to the magazine.

The Trump campaign has not responded to the magazine's allegations. 

Donald Trump has been talking tough on Cuba in recent visits to crucial Florida, where the hardline anti-Fidel Castro Cuban-American voters remain an important part of the GOP coalition in the state. According to the U.S. Census, more than 1.2 million Cubans live in Florida, which amounts to more than 6% of the state's population.