Mexico and Cuba criticized the United States on Monday for demanding that the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel [part of Starwood] here [Mexico City] order a group of Cuban officials, who were meeting last week with representatives of American oil companies, to check out of the hotel and leave the premises...The hotel told the Cuban representatives to leave...the Mexican foreign minister...said the idea that a United States law was being enforced on Mexican soil was troubling. He said the government would take action against the hotel if it proved true...a spokesman for the Mexico City government, said the hotel's owners could be prosecuted under several Mexican laws that ban discrimination based on national origin or ideology. "There are laws, federal as well as local, that obligate service providers to provide those services in a general manner, without any discriminatory attitudes," he said. [also refers to ExxonMobil, Valero Energy]