Your national sovereignty and laws don't matter: when the U.S. says "jump," you say "how high...?"

ohfercryinoutloud... talk about friggin' imperial arrogance...

Local authorities in Mexico City have fined a US-owned hotel, at the centre of a diplomatic row, $15,000. They said the branch of the Sheraton chain had discriminated against 16 Cuban officials by expelling them from its premises last month.

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. The Cuban delegation was due to meet a group of US businessmen opposed to the embargo at the Maria Isabel Sheraton hotel in Mexico City's central Cuauhtemoc district on 4 February.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc., which owns the Sheraton chain, said the company was asked by the US Treasury Department to tell the Cubans to leave. The Mexican government launched an investigation saying the firm might have broken the law by expelling the delegation.

Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez insisted at the time that the US law could not be applied in a third country.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the Sheraton in Mexico City was a subsidiary of a US-owned hotel group and therefore subject to US laws and regulations.

interesting argument... funny it doesn't apply to google, yahoo and microsoft in china...

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