Travel to Cuba via 3rd Country: Costa Rica. Do they give you an exit stamp or second entry stamp?

Is it possible to avoid a “paper trail” for unlicensed travel to Cuba through Costa Rica? I just need to know if I’ll get a second entry visa from Costa Rica within a week if I make a quick trip to Havana and back through Costa Rica. This could also be problematic if they stamp your passport on the way out. Any thoughts?
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They don’t Cuba does not stamp passports.
A few years an American could still travel to Cuba via another country and avoid being caught, but that’s no longer right. Everything is tracked now. If you chance it, don’t even show your passport in Cuba. But I wouldn’t
Question the inmigration people from Costa Rica not to stamp your passport. Maybe you will be lucky and they won’t stamp it.
No thought about Costa Rica, but really this is a non-issue. US immigration don’t go through your passport checking the dates of the stamps (even if they can read them).
OFAC have only prosecuted a handful of people each year in the last few years – and most of those are for buying Cuban cigars over the internet.
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