Mexico: Mexico City Sheraton Hotel to Stay Open

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | March 7th, 2006 | Trackback

The on-again, off-again closure of the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel in Mexico City is officially off and the hotel will remain open. The saga began Feb. 2 when managers expelled 16 Cuban officials attending meetings with U.S. oil executives. The U.S. Treasury Department reportedly applied pressure to the U.S.-owned hotel to kick out the Cubans because doing business with them violated the U.S. embargo on Cuba. Mexican officials protested and demanded the hotel shut down, and for almost a month the hotel’s fate was uncertain. City and hotel officials found a face-saving solution March 1 and the hotel is now safely open.

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