guardian.co.uk — Staff at Cancun's five-star Hotel Coral Beach appear to have assumed the woman wearing traditional Mayan dress was a beggar, so without asking questions they ordered her to leave. Except she was Rigoberta Menchú, the Nobel peace prizewinner, Unesco goodwill ambassador, Guatemalan presidential candidate and figurehead for indigenous rights.
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liuiteAug 17, 2007
discriminating against a Mayan woman in the Yucatan, say it ain't so!me think the discrimation there is even worse in hotels that are run by the Spaniards.
foreverseetheAug 17, 2007
No, how can yoube so sure!?!? that Latina.com is a terrible Article. It doesn't add up. and the quotes from Ms Menchu could have easily been taken out of context nor did Latina.com link to the transcript of their "exclusive interview" with her. The first link is yellow journalism and damage control, and the second link has no merits, it simply refers to the first link.
Closed AccountAug 17, 2007
It's sensatinalist (sic) because of exactly that, the title. She didn't actually get thrown out: "David Romero, a journalist and newsreader who was due to interview her for state radio Quintana Roo, told local media that hotel security tried to eject Ms Menchú from the lobby. They relented when told who she was."To quote Maddox, your comment "flirts with the obvious, but veers away at the last second into a head-on collision with the idiot mobile carrying a full load of dumbass."Dugg down.
foreverseetheAug 17, 2007
Don't try to appease them. As long as you live, someone, somewhere will ALWAYS remind you that you are not one of them.
miriclaireAug 18, 2007
Will this set your suspicions at ease? "Menchu and her sister Anita said none of it had happened. "This was purely an invention of the press," Anita told Latina.com today in an exclusive interview. "Nothing at all happened in the hotel, and we didn't even know about the rumor until we got on the plane to go back to Mexico City."Your instincts are correct--and this is how people are fooled all the time!
kuzotzAug 18, 2007
that's paranoia s**t.It happens to me when I travel through the south.white americans are paranoid.
rotorhead47Sep 27, 2007
What do you expect, she was selling test tube shots and hair braids in the lobby