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Gran Plaza: Guadalajara

Gran Plaza: Guadalajara We are in process of collecting information about this sight....

Mexico City Officials Try to Close Hotel

Mexico City Officials Try to Close Hotel City officials moved Tuesday to shut down a U.S.-owned hotel that angered many Mexicans when it kicked out a Cuban delegation under pressure from Washington. Virginia Jaramillo Flores, head of the city borough where the upscale Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel is located, said authorities notified the hotel staff that it would be closed because it is in violation of building codes. Jaramillo said the hotel could reopen when it had corrected the violations and paid a $15,000 fine. Borough officials posted signs at the front entrance saying, "Due to infringement of local law, the Sheraton Hotel

Gran Plaza o Macroplaza: Monterrey

Gran Plaza o Macroplaza: Monterrey

Hotel closure after Mexico-US row

Hotel closure after Mexico-US row 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. However, the authorities in the city's central

Calakmul : Campeche

Calakmul Three hundred kilometres southeast from Campeche town, and a further 60 km off the main Escarcega-Chetumal road, the ruins of Calakmul are only accessible by car The site has been the subject of much attention in recent years, due to the previously concealed scale of the place. It is now believed to be one of the largest archaeological sites in Mesoamerica, and certainly the biggest of all the Maya cities, with somewhere in the region often thousand buildings in total, many of them as yet unexplored. There is evidence that Calakmul was begun in 300 BC, and continually added

Mexico-US row over Cuban eviction

Mexico-US row over Cuban eviction The authorities in Mexico say a US-owned hotel in Mexico City may have broken the law by expelling a group of Cuban officials. The delegation was ordered out of the Hotel Maria Isabel Sheraton last week at the behest of Washington, because of the US embargo against Cuba. Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said the US law could not be applied in a third country. Some 30 people held an anti-US rally outside the hotel. The Cuban government said the incident showed US policy had been affecting other countries. The Cuban officials were due to meet

Museo de la Ciudad: Guadalajara

Museo de la Ciudad: Guadalajara We are in process of collecting information about this sight....

Museo Ripley’s Ciudad de Mexico: Mexico City

Museo Ripley's Ciudad de Mexico: Mexico City

Anti-US protest blocks hotel in Mexico City

Anti-US protest blocks hotel in Mexico City Protesters waving Cuban flags blocked the entrance to a US-owned Sheraton hotel in Mexico City yesterday, calling for it to be closed because it evicted Cuban officials on orders from Washington. About 30 people shouted "Yankees out" as they demonstrated outside the hotel over its eviction of the 16 Cubans who were staying there last week for a conference with US energy companies. Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said Mexico was looking into the evictions and would apply the full force of the law against the Sheraton if a crime had been committed. "It

University City (Ciudad Universitaria)

University City (Ciudad Universitaria)