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Article: Mexico City slams door on hotel that booted Cubans.
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- San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Byline: Dane Schiller
Mar. 1--MEXICO CITY -- An ongoing spat over whether one of the city's premier hotels should be punished for knuckling under to Washington and kicking out Cuban guests took a strange twist Tuesday.
The city government -- which has called last month's removal of the Cubans from the 755-room Maria Isabel Sheraton an abuse of civil rights -- sealed some of the hotel's entrances.
Guests, however, continued to come and go through side doors, trying to avoid the crowds, controversy and political theater developing out front.
"We are going to put up our bags, sit downstairs, have a drink and wait for them to tell us ...