Hotel closure after Mexico-US row

[Judi Lynn]

Last Updated: Thursday, 9 February 2006, 12:00 GMT

Hotel closure after Mexico-US row

There have been anti-US protests outside the hotel
Local authorities in a district of Mexico City have announced the imminent closure of a US-owned hotel at the centre of a diplomatic row.
It said the branch of the Sheraton chain had committed irregularities such as unauthorised building work and failure to provide a menu in Braille.

The announcement comes as Mexico investigates the hotel for expelling 16 Cuban officials last week.

The delegation was ordered out to comply with a US embargo against Cuba.

A US law bans American companies from doing business with the island.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4696352.stm

[400Years]

1. people are sick of the U.S. meddling in their internal affairs

[murray hill farm]

3. This could have been forseen..ha

ya just dont want to mess with mexico..ha! They hold the papers that allows a company from the usa..or any other country..to do business in mexico...and mexico is a proud, proud country. This was a huge insult to them...so, it was just a matter of time before the hotel recieved a visit from the mexican authorities. Now..try to open up again...it will be soooooooo complicated and so difficult and soooooooo costly to even consider...and then, mexico will just own that building..just a matter of time. ya just dont want to mess with mexico.

[400Years]

4. I've thought about moving to Mexico for quite a while now

I've travelled down there quite a bit and really love the country.

[Ben Ceremos]

13. Viva La Raza!

Venceremos juntos y ganamos el mundo!!!

[Tempest]

2. Fox has got to be awfully pissed off at Bush

This incident played right into the hands of Fox's opponent in the upcoming elections.

[MadMaddie]

5. Hunh...loosing another country as friend...

That's about par for the course isn't it..The US is going to be all alone eventually and when they decide to start their war with Iran or whoever is on their list...there will be no countries to sacrifice their soldiers.

[mitchtv]

6. bwahahahahaha

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Poll_Blind]

7. LOL! Mexico pushes back and hard!

I'll be the folks are Sheraton are happy that by following Bush's orders they have now lost a major hotel in a prime tourist destination spot.

Will they learn?

PB

[High Plains]

8. "failure to provide a menu in Braille"

Whatever works, I suppose.

Actually, I sort of feel for Sheraton. Damned if they do, damned it they don't. Oh,well, I won't shed too many tears.

[mom cat]

9. I'll bet there were some problems with the caulking on one of the

windows too! Kill then with regs.
The Braile thing is priceless.

[Sadie5]

10. Yell at me if you want

but I'm sure some won't agree with me. I hope Fox is thrown out and a 'Chavez" takes his place. Fox is much too cozy with Bush. The people in Mexico live in shacks and have little to eat due to Fox wanting to play dictator. Fox gives news conferences on the porch of his ranch, yet directly outside his door are shacks and deplorable conditions. A 'Chavez type' would look after the people and see that their life was made better. I think I read somewhere where Mexico still has polio now and then.

[High Plains]

12. Presidential election in July

Fox can't run--no presidential reelection in Mexico.

It looks like former Mexico City Mayor Manuel Lopez Obrador, running at the head of the center-left Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) will win the election. He's no Chavez, but it would be another domino toppling to the left.

[ronnie624]

14. Hopefully Fox will be replaced by

Manuel Lopez Obrador as the leftist movement sweeps ever northward and beyond.

I can hope, can't I?

[Judi Lynn]

15. Did a quick check on this mayor's name in google news. Found this:

Published: Feb 08, 2006 12:30 AM
Modified: Feb 08, 2006 07:35 AM

Mexico gets ready to choose

Rick Martinez, Correspondent
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July is a long way off, but odds are good that the charismatic Lopez Obrador will win the election. The former mayor of Mexico City has been a social activist all of his career and enjoys hero status among the poor. And Mexico has a lot of poor people. Approximately 40 percent of its population lives below the Mexican poverty line. Lopez Obrador's anti-capitalist, anti-free trade and anti-globalist agenda should play well. Throw in an anti-American screed here and there and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez could easily endorse Lopez Obrador's platform.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/397514.html

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A lot could happen to screw things up by then, but it looks very good right now, doesn't it? Sure hope it turns out o.k.

[ronnie624]

16. Yes it does look good.

However:

"Mexico provides more crude oil to the U.S. economy than Saudi Arabia. Last year we imported more oil from Latin America than from the Middle East. And in terms of exports to the U.S., Mexico is the Saudi Arabia of Latino crude."

This fact will apparently place a target squarely on Obrador's chest.

And as usual the seemingly obligatory pokes at Chavez: "Throw in an anti-American screed here and there and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez could easily endorse Lopez Obrador's platform.".

Nice to "see" you. :hi: Thanks for the article.

[HuffleClaw]

11. wooo hoooo ! ! ! !

"...the branch of the Sheraton chain had committed irregularities such as unauthorised building work and failure to provide a menu in Braille."

hhaahhaaa. they use little technicalities to screw 'em. good for them. a great way to deal with this case of illegal bullying.