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Outrage In Oslo: American-Owned Hotel Refuses To Lodge Cubans
The Anti-racist Center, the Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud (LDO) and the Oslo office of trade union confederation LO have issued strong reactions after a Cuban Tourism delegation were denied rooms at the Scandic Edderkoppen Hotel in Oslo."Sorry, we're full. Here, have a complimentary herring." "LO Oslo demands that the government take the step of denying business activity to companies like Scandic, which clearly adhere to the USA's illegal boycott and blockade rather than the policy of the Norwegian authorities," LO said in a press release. The LO members and Castro's Tourist Board apparently speak the same language. At the same time, the Anti-racist Center filed a complaint with the police against the hotel, the managing director for the Hilton hotels and the Scandic chain in Norway. This charge is based on a law prohibiting the denial of services on the grounds of a person's citizenship or other ethnic reasons. Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud Beate Gangsås will ask the hotel management at the Scandic Edderkoppen for an explanation. "We expect the hotel to account for itself. If this is not satisfactory the LDO will make a complaint," said LDO section leader Ann Helen Aarø, and said that their reasoning had to be based on Norwegian conditions. "There is nothing that guarantees any company with American owner interests to exclude the citizens of a country on the grounds that the USA boycotts that nation. We have to examine the rules that apply to business in Norway," Aarø said. And there's no business like Commie business.
A similar event occurred in Mexico City last year, when 16 Cubans were thrown out of an American-owned hotel while they were taking part in a meeting with American businessmen. The Cuban government called the episode an example of the American trade boycott infringing on the sovereignty of other nations. Posted by: mrp 2007-01-04 |
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