Was it right for Washington to expel Cuban diplomats from a privately owned hotel In Mexico City?
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First of all, Washington can not expel anybody from a private establishment.  However, if the Embassy (or any other organization) has security concerns about persons who are in a position to do harm to their premises or to conduct espionage around their premises, they can certainly ask the business to kick out the guest/customer.  The business does not have to comply, but might want to in order to please the requester.  \n\nThis would be an entirely optional issue for a private hotel, who could have refused to do as asked, albeit with the warning that they would lose business.  Consider this: you have a neighbor who is obnoxious and playing music all night long and you can't sleep.  Do you have the right to ask them turn it down, yes.  If they comply, fine.  But can you force them to turn it down (without calling the cops)?  No.  If your neighbor wants to stay in your good graces (and not have you wake them up another time) they will do as you request.\n\nForeign governments routinely do this in order to ensure their safety and security.  However, the Sheraton is not a private hotel.  The Sheraton chain is a United States registered business, so the issue of asset control comes into play if the hotel did not voluntarily execute the request...see the article from reuters below.  By the way, I don't know if Mexican law prohibits hotels from evicting guests, but I doubt it.\n\nMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Protesters waving Cuban flags blocked the entrance to a U.S.-owned Sheraton hotel in Mexico City on Tuesday, calling for it to be closed because it evicted Cuban officials on orders from Washington.\n\nAbout 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 U.S. energy companies.\n\nPresidential 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.\n\n"It is an unacceptable application of a foreign law in our country, which goes against all principles of international law," Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Derbez said in a radio interview.\n\nStarwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc., which owns Sheraton hotels, said it had been asked by the U.S.\nTreasury Department to tell the Cuban officials to leave the hotel because of the terms of the U.S. embargo on the island.\n\nMexican newspapers were filled with angry opinion pieces railing against perceived U.S. meddling in Mexico.\n\nIn Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the Sheraton in Mexico City was a subsidiary of an American-owned hotel group and therefore subject to U.S. laws and regulations.\n\n"Very basically, U.S. law would apply to U.S. corporations or subsidiaries of U.S. corporations, no matter where they may be -- whether it's in Mexico City or in Europe or South America," McCormack said.\n\nHe said the Mexican government had contacted the State Department about the matter, adding that it was the Treasury Department that enforced these laws. "We view this as a matter of asset control," McCormack said.\n\nThe Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces the embargo against Cuba, insists it is illegal to provide services to Cuban nationals and entities in third countries.\n\nAndres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist candidate favored to win Mexico's July presidential elections, said the evictions were "in bad taste."\n\n"Foreign laws cannot be applied in our country," he said on his morning television show.\n\nMexico's relations with the United States have suffered a string of setbacks in recent months. There have been angry words over drug violence along their shared border, U.S. plans to build a border fence to stop illegal immigrants and the killing of an undocumented Mexican by the U.S. Border Patrol.\n\nMexico's friendship with Cuba als
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Yes I do. While the person responsible for the hotel bombings was from California, he had no connection with the US Government. Further, he is believed to have mental problems. Evo Morales comments were clearly uncalled for.
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partly, yes. Cuba, as you know is a commie country who hates America (or at least Fidel Castro does). I think bush is too paranoid...
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No, you cannot own property in Mexico unless you are a citizen.  Too bad the US didn't think of that 100 years ago, then the Saudis would not own our counrty.
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base at the southeastern end of Cuba (19°54′N 75°9′W) has been used by the United States Navy for more than a century. The United States controls the land on both sides of the southern part of Guantánamo Bay (Bahía de Guantánamo in Spanish) under a lease set up in the wake of the 1898 Spanish-American War. The Cuban government denounces the lease on grounds that article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties voids treaties procured by force or its threatened use. (However, article 4 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties explicitly states that it is not retroactive, applying "only to treaties which are concluded by States after the entry into force of the present Convention."\nThus the Vienna Convention cannot apply to the 1898 lease agreement.)\n\nSince 2001, the naval base has contained a detainment camp for persons alleged to be militant combatants captured in Afghanistan and later in Iraq that the U.S. maintains are not protected under the Geneva Convention.
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Cuba, in retaliation for JFK trying to assassinate Castro via the Mob.  FBI agents tried to track down leads involving meetings between Oswald and Cuban agents in Mexico City, but were recalled by FBI central office....so the leads were never fully developed.  The Cuban agent involved has never commented on this subject.
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search for cuban council in yahoo....\nand select cuban council - friendster editor
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We weren't.  What happened is that the British company that held the contract to manage the ports was purchased by Dubai World Imports, a port management company owned by the UAE.  This led to worries that the UAE would use access to the ports as a way to sneak terrorists into the country. Congress was simply trying to decide wether to get out of the contract and go with another company or maintain the status quo.\n\nThe ports are still owned by the United States and security is handled by the Coast Guard.  The management company only handles day to day operations.\n\nWe are looking for a management company now, because the UAE has withdrawn any claims to that contract.
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I'm no expert, but most of the Cuban people seem to like American culture enough to push consensus to accept Democracy. There may be figures in the military that want to take the reigns like Castro did, so that may be a potential source of conflict. But if the US really wants to impose it's will, they can really pressure a new guy in different, more direct ways. Especially since Russia doesn't have their back anymore.
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And to top it off, they were never going to manage the ports. They bought the company that runs the terminals in the ports, just like the Chinese Communists already own several now. Why was'nt there an uproar when that occured under Clinton? They represent a greater threat than one of our allies. Yeah, it's time to get over it. It's time for the politians to quit manipulating everyone, and it's time for people to start paying attention to what's going on in thier little neck of the woods.
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Entering Mexican waters without proper permissions can be deadly. I would contact the harbor master from the port you are heading too.
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More than anything else, I think it started out of embarassment. When Fidel Castro came out of nowhere to lead his people against a very corrupt regieme led by Bautista, it was like he was a Latino John Kennedy. We welcomed him here in the US. The problem was, of course, that much of the corruption was tied up with the American Mafia and gambling cartels. They did not take very well to being kicked out of Cuba. \n\nThen there was Fidel's Socialist leanings. He was a man of the people, right? He and Che Gueverra saw themselves as liberators. The revolution would not be confined to just Cuba but might well be exported to all the corrupt North American dominated regimes. The US could not stomach that. Trade started getting "difficult."\n\nFidel appealed to a nation very interested in establishing a Western Hemisphere base of influence, the Soviet Union. This was the era of a very hot "Cold War" with Nikita Khruchov taking off his shoe and banging it on the desk in the UN threatening the US with "We will bury you!" The Soviet Union even went so far as to send guided missiles to Cuba. John Kennedy was President at the time. It seemed as though the US and the Soviet Union were going to nuclear war over Cuba. The Soviets withdrew their missiles.\n\nFidel stayed on. The US took in Cubano refugees. Some of them launched attempts to topple Fidel's government. The CIA may have even tried to assassinate him.  There were rumors that Cuba was behind the JFK assassination plot.\n\nSo, Cuba has remained only 80 miles off the Florida shores. And the US still has a base there where the prisoners from the latest war are kept. Strange, huh? Yet, we still do not trade with them.
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No,the secret Service are a part of the Treasury Department, and the president can not tell them to go away unless he/she is in there private quarters.  I
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The base there was established in 1898 when the US took control of Cuba from Spain. When Cuba gained independence, they gave a perpetual lease, where both parties have to agree for it to be terminated, in 1903.
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The Mexican, Cuban, and other foreign people need a place to go where they will be accepted. If this place happens to be America then so be it. Its inhumane to shoot people trying to cross the boarder or to send them back to Cuba after traveling across a fairly substantial strentch of water. We're the great American melting pot and it would be great if that could continue  peacefuly.
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After  JFK's failed attempt to kill Castro with the Bay of Pigs invasion and his attempt to get the American Mafia's help, Castro retaliated using a patsy given to him by the Russians.  I seen this on a German TV documentary...they tried to interview the Cuban agent who met with Oswald in Mexico City prior to the assasination...but his answers only created more doubt...
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i couldnt find the email address, but here's the website provided by the Mexican Embassy in Washington DC:\n\nhttp://portal.sre.gob.mx/albuquerque/