Hotel mistakes Nobel laureate for bag lady

August 17, 2007

Hotel mistakes Nobel laureate for bag lady :

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

Staff at Cancuns 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.

Oh, the irony….

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