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No rooms for Cubans at Hilton hotels
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): As part of the US economic blockade of Cuba, the American Hilton Hotel chain has announced a denial of bookings to Cuban delegations in all its facilities around the world.
A Cuban trade mission to a recent travel fair in Oslo, Norway, was denied a booking at a local Hilton hotel due to the US embargo on the island, the Guardian newspaper reported.
The Hilton group is barring Cuban delegations from all of its hotels elsewhere in the world, as are other American hotel companies, Hilton spokesperson in London Linda Bain told the Guardian. "We are a US company and if we took a booking from a Cuban delegation, we would be subject to fines or prison," said the spokesperson.
In view of the anti-Cuba action, Norwegian trade unions and other organisations have filed complaints and say they will protest the Hilton denial until it is changed, PL news agency reported, citing Anne Grethe Skaardal, leader of Norway's Union of Municipal and General Employees as saying that it is unacceptable that Washington rules the world.
The Hilton action illustrates the far-reaching effect of the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba over the past 45 years despite the increasing number of countries, organisations and world personalities that have opposed the US anti-Cuba measure.
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