Ooops

She was wearing a Mayan dress, the traditional attire of indigenous people in central America, and the hotel's response was also traditional: throw her out.

Staff at Cancun's five-star Hotel Coral Beach appear to have assumed this was another street vendor or beggar, so without asking questions they ordered her to leave. Except the woman was Rigoberta Menchú, the Nobel peace prizewinner, Unesco goodwill ambassador, Guatemalan presidential candidate and figurehead for indigenous rights.

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The human rights activist was in the Mexican coastal resort at the request of President Felipe Calderón to participate in a conference on drinking water and sanitation and was due to give interviews at the hotel.

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Commentators noted the irony of upmarket resorts discriminating against real Maya while trying to attract tourists with fake Mayan architecture and spectacles.

  UK Guardian

Andrew Bolt at Australia's Herald Sun will say she set them up.

I saw this in resorts in Mexico, and I'd suggest that they didn't necessarily think she was a beggar or street vendor. They just knew she wasn't a wealthy light-skinned patron. Whatever else she was didn't matter. The light-skinned vacationers, Mexican and foreign both, don't want the peasant class to mar the scenery. It's typical resort treatment of the "natives."

President Calderón might want to think about trying to change that. But I doubt it.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.