No room at the Hilton for the Cuban Government

trying to obey the US's prohibition that US companies not do business with Cuba, an Oslo (Norway) hotel owned by the Hilton Hotel Corporation refused to let a Cuban delegation book rooms:

The Cuban delegation, set to attend a travel fair in Oslo this month, planned to stay at the Scandic Edderkoppen Hotel in the city center, as they had on five previous visits.

However, the 140-hotel Scandic company was bought by Hilton in March, and the Cubans were informed in December that they would have to find another hotel due to the American boycott.

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oy vey... of course, now Hilton is coming under criticism, and a boycott of its hotels is underway in Norway.

this illustrates how poorly thought-out US policy is in this respect. it puts US companies in an untenable possition: they either break the law of their host country or US law. either way, they get in trouble

imagine, for example, what would happen if a Saudi Arabian hotel chain did not allow its hotels in the US to book Israeli government delegations because Saudi Arabia has a boycott against Israel.

of course, this is another victory for the Cuban government in the international press. they were notified in December that they needed to make other arrangements. i am sure they decided not to in order to create just this sort of black eye for the US.

Cuba has been waging (and winning) a very effective guerrilla media war against the US for decades now.